--- title: Grandad: "Green and black screen, and we loved it, you ungrateful lo… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics description: Grandad: "Green and black screen, and we loved it, you ungrateful lot!" Which machine is he on about? 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Which machine is he on about? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we, you · **What happens:** love, lot · **To what, where:** screen This is test 2 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/126-in-the-olden-days/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Grandad: "Green and black screen, and we loved it, you ungrateful lot!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t2:1 # text = Grandad: "Green and black screen, and we loved it, you ungrateful lot!" 1 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 ungrateful ungrateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** *in a quote* | past | we | screen | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **lot** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. *Sentence 2:* Which machine is he on about? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t2:2 # text = Which machine is he on about? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 5 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} YouTube, from 2005 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t2:o1:1 # text = YouTube, from 2005 1 YouTube YouTube PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2005 2005 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The smartphone, from 2007 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t2:o2:1 # text = The smartphone, from 2007 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 smartphone smartphone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 2007 2007 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A tablet, from 2010 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t2:o3:1 # text = A tablet, from 2010 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The Game Boy, from 1989 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t2:o4:1 # text = The Game Boy, from 1989 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Game Game PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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