Exam question 2 · Warm parents and strict parents

Given that a household observes army time, ascertain the hour denoted by «twenty-one hundred».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: household, you · What happens: give, observe, ascertain, denote

This is exam question 2 of lesson 493 «Warm parents and strict parents» 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	5 observes	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 observes	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 household	det
4	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 observes	nsubj
5	observes	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ascertain	advcl
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 observes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ascertain	punct
9	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ascertain	obj
12	denoted	denote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ascertain	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	18 hundred	case
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 hundred	punct
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 one	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 twenty	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hundred	compound
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 denoted	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 hundred	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	observe	present	a household	time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	hour		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	denote	participle	you not said here		by one hundred	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

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

Nine o'clock in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 morning	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nine o'clock in the evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 evening	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

One o'clock in the afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 afternoon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 afternoon	det
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Twelve o'clock noon precisely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noon	compound
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	3 noon	advmod

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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