Test 8 · ★ · Time, routines and sleep

Why is it smart to plan backward from the time you have to leave?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, time · What happens: be, plan, have, leave · To what, where: time

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 smart	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smart	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smart	expl
4	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 plan	mark
6	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smart	advcl
7	backward	backward	ADV	_	6 plan	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plan	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				smart property	tree rules
2	plan	to-infinitive			time	backward property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	you	the time not said here			tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive	the time not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It makes the clock run slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	slower	slow	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the clock					tree rules
2	run	present	the clock not said here					slow property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It makes everyone else late instead of you, so it's fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 makes	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 everyone	advmod
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 makes	advmod
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 you	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fair	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 fair	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fair	expl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	everyone				instead you; late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material everyone=Product
2	is	present						fair property	tree rules

Option 3

It means you can skip some steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 skip	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 skip	aux
5	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 steps	det
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 skip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	skip	can	you	some steps					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You can work out when each step must start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 work	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 work	compound:prt
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 start	advmod
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 step	det
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 start	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 start	aux
9	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work out	can	You						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	start	must	each step						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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