Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★
"the queue at the servo was a mile long, took forever, I waited like 20 min" (a servo is a petrol station). How long did he wait?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queue, I, servo, he · What happens: be, take, wait · To what, where: mile, petrol station · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms 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 queue at the servo was a mile long, took forever, I waited like 20 min" (a servo is a petrol station).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 queue | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queue | det |
| 3 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mile | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 servo | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 servo | det |
| 6 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queue | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mile | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mile | det |
| 9 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mile | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mile | parataxis |
| 13 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waited | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 waited | nsubj |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 min | case |
| 18 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 min | nummod |
| 19 | min | min | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waited | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 min | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 station | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 servo | det |
| 23 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 station | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 station | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 station | det |
| 26 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 station | compound |
| 27 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waited | parataxis |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 station | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mile | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the queue at the servo | a mile | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | forever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | past | I | like 20 min | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a servo | a petrol station | tree rules |
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: How long did he wait?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · do-support | he | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
As long as a mile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 mile | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mile | det |
| 5 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 long | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 20 | advmod |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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
Forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forever | forever | ADV | _ | 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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