Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…
★★★ The party ran "half an hour or so". If they started at a quarter past four, about when did the Dodo shout "The race is over!"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, they, race · What happens: run, start, do, be · To what, where: quarter, Dodo shout · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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: ★★★ The party ran "half an hour or so".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 party | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hour | punct |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 hour | det:predet |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hour | det |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 so | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 hour | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hour | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | ★ ★ the party | hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: If they started at a quarter past four, about when did the Dodo shout "The race is over!"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 started | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 quarter | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 quarter | det |
| 6 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 four | case |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 started | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 did | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 did | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shout | det |
| 14 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shout | compound |
| 15 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 over | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 race | det |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 over | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 over | cop |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 shout | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 over | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 over | punct |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | they | a quarter | past four | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | do | past | they not said here | the Dodo shout | about property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the race | over property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Half past four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 four | det:predet |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 four | amod |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Just after four o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 o'clock | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 o'clock | case |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 o'clock | nummod |
| 4 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About a quarter to five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 quarter | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quarter | det |
| 3 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 five | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 quarter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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