Test 1 · ★ · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met
Lin in Vancouver calls at 6 in the evening on Saturday. Chengdu is 15 hours ahead (in summer). What time is it for Nainai?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Vancouver, Chengdu, time · What happens: lin, call, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 513 «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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: Lin in Vancouver calls at 6 in the evening on Saturday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lin | lin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 calls | mark |
| 3 | Vancouver | Vancouver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | nsubj |
| 4 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lin | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 6 | case |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 calls | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Saturday | case |
| 11 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 evening | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lin | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | present | Vancouver | evening | at 6 | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at 6=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: Chengdu is 15 hours ahead (in summer).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chengdu | Chengdu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ahead | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ahead | cop |
| 3 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 hours | nummod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ahead | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 summer | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 summer | case |
| 8 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ahead | parataxis |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 summer | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ahead | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chengdu | hour | ahead property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What time is it for Nainai?
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 Nainai | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Nainai | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Nainai | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Nainai | case |
| 6 | Nainai | Nainai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nainai | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | what time | for Nainai | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
9 in the evening on Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | 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 9 | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Saturday | case |
| 6 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
9 in the morning on Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | 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 9 | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Sunday | case |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
6 in the morning on Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 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 6 | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Sunday | case |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
3 in the morning on Saturday
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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Saturday | case |
| 6 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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