Test 16 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at…
★★★ It is a little past ten at night. If dawn comes at about four, roughly how many hours of night are left for the search?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, dawn · What happens: be, come, leave · To what, where: little past ten, four, many hours
This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 49 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» of the books 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: ★★★ It is a little past ten at night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ten | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 It | case |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ten | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ten | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ten | amod |
| 8 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ten | amod |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ten | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ★ ★ It | a little past ten | night | 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: If dawn comes at about four, roughly how many hours of night are left for the search?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 comes | mark |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 four | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 four | advmod |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 8 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 10 many | advmod |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hours | amod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hours | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 search | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 search | det |
| 18 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | dawn | four | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at four=Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | many hours of night | for the search | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for search=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Roughly seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 2 seven | advmod |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 eight | advmod |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 six | advmod |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word 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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