Exam question 3 · Weather signs and the 30-30 rule

Identify the period which should elapse after the last thunder before a return out of doors.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, period · What happens: identify, elapse · To what, where: period

This is exam question 3 of lesson 15 «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 elapse	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 elapse	aux
6	elapse	elapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 period	acl:relcl
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 thunder	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thunder	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thunder	amod
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elapse	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 return	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 return	det
13	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elapse	obl
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 doors	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 doors	case
16	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 return	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the period					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme
2	elapse	should	the period				after the last thunder; before a return out doors		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Thirty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Three minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Thirty seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Three hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	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.

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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