Test 7 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

Which is true about how long homework will take?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, take

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 homework	case
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 homework	amod
7	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	take	future						about long homework	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Homework always takes exactly half an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 takes	advmod
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 half	advmod
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 hour	det:predet
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Homework				hour	always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

People usually guess it will be much slower than it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guess	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 guess	advmod
3	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slower	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 slower	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 slower	cop
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 slower	advmod
8	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 guess	ccomp
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 is	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 is	nsubj
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slower	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	guess	present	People	usually property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	it	slow property	tree rules
3	be	present	it		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

People usually guess it will be quicker than it really is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guess	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 guess	advmod
3	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quicker	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 quicker	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 quicker	cop
7	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 guess	conj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quicker	obl
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 is	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quicker	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	People					usually property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	it					than it; quick property	tree rules

Option 4

Everybody always guesses the time exactly right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 guesses	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 guesses	advmod
3	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guesses	obj
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 right	advmod
7	right	right	ADV	_	3 guesses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	Everybody				time	always, right property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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