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Test 1 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

In March a family in New York forgets to put the clocks forward. What happens on Monday morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: forget, not put, happen · To what, where: clocks

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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: In March a family in New York forgets to put the clocks forward.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 March	case
2	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 forgets	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgets	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 York	case
6	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 York	flat
7	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 family	nmod
8	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 put	mark
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 forgets	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clocks	det
12	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	obj
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 forgets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	a family in New York				march		tree rules
2	not put	to-infinitive	a family in New York not said here	the clocks				forward property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clock=Goal

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: What happens on Monday morning?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 morning	case
4	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 morning	compound
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present					morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They arrive an hour early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrive	nsubj
2	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrive	obj
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 arrive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	They				hour	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They arrive a day late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrive	nsubj
2	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrive	obl:unmarked
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 arrive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	They				day	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They arrive an hour late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrive	nsubj
2	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrive	obj
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 arrive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	They				hour	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They arrive on time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrive	nsubj
2	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	They				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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