Test 1 · Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers
The keeper starts at 7 and the zoo opens at 10. How many hours of work before visitors come?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: keeper, zoo, many hours · What happens: start, open, come · To what, where: 7, 10
This is test 1 of lesson 109 «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» of the biology 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.
The question
Sentence 1: The keeper starts at 7 and the zoo opens at 10.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 keeper | det |
| 2 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 7 | case |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 starts | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opens | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 zoo | det |
| 8 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opens | nsubj |
| 9 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 starts | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 10 | case |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 opens | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | the keeper | 7 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | open | present | the zoo | 10 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 10=Location |
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: How many hours of work before visitors come?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hours | nmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 7 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | many hours of work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
17
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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