Test 11 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

clocks change this wknd, spring forward or back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: clocks · What happens: change · To what, where: wknd

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wknd	det
4	wknd	wknd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spring	punct
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wknd	appos
7	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 spring	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 back	cc
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 forward	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	clocks	this wknd					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wknd=Patient

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

In spring clocks go forward one hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 spring	case
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
3	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hour	nummod
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	clocks				hour; spring	forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They go back one hour in spring

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 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hour	nummod
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	present	They				hour; spring		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Clocks never change in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 change	advmod
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 spring	case
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	Clocks				spring		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They go forward two hours

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 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	They				hour	forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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