Test 3 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text
★★★ Text: «Ana left home at 8:50. The walk to school took a quarter of an hour, but she stopped for 5 minutes to tie her lace.» When did Ana get to school?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ana, walk · What happens: leave, take, stop, tie, get · To what, where: ★ ★ Text, 8:50, quarter, lace
This is test 3 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English 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: ★★★ Text: «Ana left home at 8:50.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Text | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Text | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Text | compound |
| 4 | Text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 7 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Text | acl:relcl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 left | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 8:50 | case |
| 11 | 8:50 | 8:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Text | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past | Ana | ★ ★ Text not said here | 8:50 | home property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent text=Theme at 8:50=Location |
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: The walk to school took a quarter of an hour, but she stopped for 5 minutes to tie her lace.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 walk | det |
| 2 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walk | nmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 quarter | det |
| 7 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hour | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hour | det |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quarter | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stopped | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stopped | nsubj |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 minutes | case |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 minutes | nummod |
| 17 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stopped | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tie | mark |
| 19 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stopped | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lace | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tie | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the walk to school | a quarter of a hour | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | walk | minute | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tie | to-infinitive | walk not said here | walk's lace | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Patient |
Sentence 3: When did Ana get to school?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | Ana | to school result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
9:10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:10 | 9:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9:05
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:05 | 9:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
9:15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:15 | 9:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
8:55
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8:55 | 8:55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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