Test 15 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

wanna start the hike at 3, sunset's at 5

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sunset · What happens: start, be · To what, where: hike, 3, 5

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 start	dep
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hike	det
4	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 start	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 3	case
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 start	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 5	punct
8	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 5	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 5	cop
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 5	case
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here	the hike		3			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hike=Eventuality
2	is	present	sunset			5			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

Run it to be quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Run	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	5 quicker	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 quicker	cop
5	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here	it					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					quick property	tree rules

Option 2

Go, it's only a few hours, you'll be back in time

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hours	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hours	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hours	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 hours	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hours	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 back	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 back	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 back	cop
13	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a few hours			tree rules
3	is	future	you		time	back property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Go and use a phone torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 use	cc
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 torch	det
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 torch	compound
6	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	infinitive	you not said here	a phone torch					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Go earlier or pick a shorter walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Go	advmod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 pick	cc
4	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 walk	det
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 walk	amod
7	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					early property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick	infinitive	you not said here	a shorter walk					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Patient

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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