--- title: Grandad: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69." Leo: "So how… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics description: Grandad: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69." Leo: "So how old are you now?" It's 2026. Test 9 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/) / t9 # Test 9 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 Grandad: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69." Leo: "So how old are you now?" It's 2026. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandad, Leo, landing · **What happens:** watch, be · **To what, where:** Moon landing, 7, 2026 This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Grandad: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69." ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t9:1 # text = Grandad: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69." 1 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 69 69 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | past | Grandad | the Moon landing | | 7 | | in 69 | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Theme | 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:* Leo: "So how old are you now?" ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t9:2 # text = Leo: "So how old are you now?" 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Leo | | | | now | old *property* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* It's 2026. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t9:3 # text = It's 2026. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | landing | 2026 | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 57 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t9:o1:1 # text = About 57 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 57 57 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} About 64 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t9:o2:1 # text = About 64 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 64 64 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} About 69 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t9:o3:1 # text = About 69 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 69 69 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About 76 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t9:o4:1 # text = About 76 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 76 76 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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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