Test 1 · ★ · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away
Mei-Lin calls her cousin at 11 in the morning on a Sunday, London time, in winter. What time is it in Shanghai?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, time · What happens: call, be · To what, where: cousin, Shanghai · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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: Mei-Lin calls her cousin at 11 in the morning on a Sunday, London time, in winter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Lin | punct |
| 3 | Lin | Lin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mei | flat |
| 4 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 11 | case |
| 8 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 calls | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Sunday | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Sunday | det |
| 14 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 16 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Sunday | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 winter | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 winter | case |
| 20 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Mei | Mei's cousin | morning; sunday; winter | at 11 | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent cousin=Theme at 11=Stimulus |
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: What time is it in Shanghai?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Shanghai | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Shanghai | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Shanghai | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Shanghai | case |
| 6 | Shanghai | Shanghai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shanghai | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | what time | Shanghai | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
11 in the morning, Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 11 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sunday | punct |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 11 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
7 in the evening, Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sunday | punct |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7 in the morning, Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Monday | punct |
| 6 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
3 in the morning, Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sunday | punct |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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