Test 9 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone
Rosa's dad says «hola» on Friday at 6, and the next thing he says to her is «adiós» on Sunday at 6. How long is that with almost no talk?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, next thing · What happens: say, be · To what, where: next thing, Rosa, adiós, 6 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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: Rosa's dad says «hola» on Friday at 6, and the next thing he says to her is «adiós» on Sunday at 6.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosa | Rosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Rosa | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 hola | punct |
| 6 | hola | hola | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 says | dep |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 hola | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Friday | case |
| 9 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hola | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 6 | case |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 hola | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 adiós | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 adiós | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 adiós | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 says | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 adiós | cop |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 adiós | punct |
| 23 | adiós | adió | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | parataxis |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 adiós | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 Sunday | case |
| 26 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 adiós | nmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 6 | case |
| 28 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 adiós | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Rosa's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | dad | the next thing not said here | Rosa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the next thing | adiós | 6 | sunday | tree rules |
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: How long is that with almost no talk?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 talk | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 talk | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 talk | mark |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 talk | case |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 talk | advmod |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 talk | det |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with no talk; almost, long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
48 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
24 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
36 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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