Test 4 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day
The short hand is between 7 and 8, and the long hand points to 9. What time is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: short hand, long hand, time · What happens: be, point · To what, where: 9, hand
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: The short hand is between 7 and 8, and the long hand points to 9.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hand | amod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 7 | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 7 | cop |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 7 | case |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 8 | cc |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 7 | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 points | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 points | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 points | nsubj |
| 14 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 7 | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 9 | case |
| 16 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 points | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 7 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the short hand | between 7 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point | present | the long hand | 9 | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to 9=Recipient |
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 time is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | what time | hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
8:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8:45 | 8:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9:35
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:35 | 9:35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7:09
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:09 | 7:09 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
7:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:45 | 7:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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