Test 8 · ★★ · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»
★★★ Ifeoma watches the twins from 4:50 to 5:20, Mum's 15 minutes late back. If Mum had been on time, how long would Ifeoma have watched them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Mum, Ifeoma · What happens: watch, be · To what, where: twins, 4:50
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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: ★★★ Ifeoma watches the twins from 4:50 to 5:20, Mum's 15 minutes late back.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 watches | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 4 | Ifeoma | Ifeoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twins | det |
| 7 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 watches | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 4:50 | case |
| 9 | 4:50 | 4:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 watches | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 5:20 | case |
| 11 | 5:20 | 5:20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 4:50 | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 minutes | punct |
| 13 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 minutes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Mum | case |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 minutes | nummod |
| 16 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 watches | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 back | advmod |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 minutes | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | ★ | the twins | 4:50 to 5:20 | minute | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=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.
Sentence 2: If Mum had been on time, how long would Ifeoma have watched them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 time | mark |
| 2 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 time | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watched | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 watched | advmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 watched | aux |
| 11 | Ifeoma | Ifeoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 watched | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 watched | aux |
| 13 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watched | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 watched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Mum | on time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | would · perfect | Ifeoma | twins = twin | long property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
30 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | 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 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
45 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45 | 45 | 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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