Test 9 · The only child: a quiet house
★★★ Esme gets in at 3:45, Dad at 4. On Fridays Dad is 10 minutes late. How long is she alone on a Friday?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, Dad, ★ · What happens: get in, be · To what, where: 3:45, 10 minutes, Friday
This is test 9 of lesson 498 «The only child: a quiet house» 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: ★★★ Esme gets in at 3:45, Dad at 4.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | Esme | Esme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 gets | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 3:45 | case |
| 8 | 3:45 | 3:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 gets | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dad | punct |
| 10 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 4 | case |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Dad | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | present | ★ ★ ★ | 3:45 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: On Fridays Dad is 10 minutes late.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Fridays | case |
| 2 | Fridays | Friday | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 minutes | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 minutes | cop |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Fridays | acl:relcl |
| 7 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 minutes | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fridays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dad | 10 minutes | late property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How long is she alone on a Friday?
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 Friday | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Friday | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Friday | nsubj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 Friday | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Friday | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Friday | det |
| 8 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Friday | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ | a Friday | alone, long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
25 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
15 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
35 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | 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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