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Exam question 2 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text

It is stated that a vehicle departed at a quarter past three and arrived twenty minutes thereafter. Ascertain the time of arrival.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vehicle, you · What happens: state, depart, arrive, ascertain · To what, where: It, quarter

This is exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 stated that a vehicle departed at a quarter past three and arrived twenty minutes thereafter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stated	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stated	aux:pass
3	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 departed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vehicle	det
6	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 departed	nsubj
7	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stated	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 quarter	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 quarter	det
10	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 departed	obl
11	past	past	ADP	_	12 three	case
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 departed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 arrived	cc
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stated	conj
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 minutes	nummod
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thereafter	obl:unmarked
17	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	14 arrived	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		It					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	depart	participle	a vehicle			a quarter		past three	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past three=Initial_Location
3	arrive	past						thereafter property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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: Ascertain the time of arrival.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 arrival	case
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here				time		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A quarter past three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarter	det
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 past	compound
3	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 past	flat

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

Option 2

Five minutes to four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 four	case
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nmod

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

Option 3

Twenty past three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 three	amod
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-five minutes to four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 four	case
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nmod

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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