Test 2 · ★★★ · Mum on her own, Dad on his own
Tremaine's cornrows took Dad 50 minutes on Monday. Each school day he's 10 minutes quicker. On which day does it take 20 minutes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cornrows, school day · What happens: take, be · To what, where: Dad, it
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 515 «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» 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: Tremaine's cornrows took Dad 50 minutes on Monday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tremaine | Tremaine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cornrows | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tremaine | case |
| 3 | cornrows | cornrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Monday | case |
| 9 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Tremaine's cornrows | Dad | minute; monday | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dad=Destination |
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: Each school day he's 10 minutes quicker.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quicker | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 quicker | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quicker | cop |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quicker | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quicker | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | each school day | minute | quick property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: On which day does it take 20 minutes?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | expl |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | it | day; minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Wednesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Tuesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Thursday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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