Test 4 · ★ · Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks…

Wait, what time was he running out of before the door slams shut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he, door · What happens: wait, run, slam, shut

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 774 «Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks end, and the youngest prince wins the dwarf's help» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 running	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl:unmarked
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 running	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 running	nsubj
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 running	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 out	fixed
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 slams	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slams	nsubj
13	slams	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 running	advcl
14	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 slams	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past · progressive	he	time	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slam	present	the door		tree rules
4	shut	participle	the door not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

twelve o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	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 3

one o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	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 4

when the clock strikes twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 strikes	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clock	det
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strikes	nsubj
4	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 strikes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present	the clock	twelve					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient

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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