Test 15 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old…
★★★ The chase began soon after ten o'clock and Nqong stopped it at five o'clock. About how many hours did it last?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Nqong, o'clock · What happens: begin, stop, last · To what, where: o'clock, five o'clock
This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» 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 chase began soon after ten o'clock and Nqong stopped it at five o'clock.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 chase | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chase | det |
| 5 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 began | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 o'clock | case |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 o'clock | nummod |
| 10 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stopped | cc |
| 12 | Nqong | Nqong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stopped | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 o'clock | case |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 o'clock | nummod |
| 17 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | ★ ★ the chase | after ten o'clock | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | stop | past | Nqong | o'clock | five o'clock | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
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: About how many hours did it last?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hours | amod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 last | obl |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 last | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 last | nsubj |
| 7 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 last | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past · do-support | o'clock | hour | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Around six hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Around | around | ADV | _ | 2 six | advmod |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About seven hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 seven | advmod |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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