Exam question 3 · The best friend who moves away
Given that it is eight o'clock on Saturday morning in the United Kingdom, ascertain the time of day in Western Australia.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: give, be, ascertain · To what, where: eight o'clock
This is exam question 3 of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ascertain | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 o'clock | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 o'clock | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 o'clock | cop |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 o'clock | nummod |
| 6 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Given | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 morning | compound |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 o'clock | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Kingdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Kingdom | det |
| 12 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 13 Kingdom | flat |
| 13 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 morning | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ascertain | punct |
| 15 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ascertain | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Western | case |
| 21 | Western | Western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | nmod |
| 22 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Western | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | eight o'clock | morning | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ascertain | present | time | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: 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
Precisely eight o'clock on Saturday morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 2 eight | advmod |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 morning | compound |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 o'clock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Morning of the following Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sunday | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sunday | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Sunday | amod |
| 5 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Morning | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Night of the preceding Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Friday | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Friday | det |
| 4 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Friday | amod |
| 5 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Night | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Afternoon or evening of the same Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 evening | cc |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Afternoon | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Saturday | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Saturday | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Saturday | amod |
| 7 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Afternoon | nmod |
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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