Test 10 · Living in a children's home
★★★ Lights out at 9, phones handed in at 8. Jordan-Lee gets home from football at half past 7. How long can he use his phone?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jordan · What happens: hand in, get, use · To what, where: phones, 8, football, phone
This is test 10 of lesson 520 «Living in a children's home» 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: ★★★ Lights out at 9, phones handed in at 8.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lights | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Lights | compound |
| 4 | Lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 9 | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 9 | case |
| 7 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Lights | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 phones | punct |
| 9 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Lights | conj |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 phones | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 handed | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 8 | case |
| 13 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 handed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lights | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand in | participle | phones not said here | 8 | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: Jordan-Lee gets home from football at half past 7.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jordan | punct |
| 3 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jordan | flat |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 gets | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 football | case |
| 7 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 half | case |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 gets | obl |
| 10 | past | past | ADP | _ | 11 7 | case |
| 11 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 half | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Jordan | football | at half past 7; home property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent from football=Source at half=Asset |
Sentence 3: How long can he use his phone?
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 | 5 use | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 phone | nmod:poss |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | can | Jordan | Jordan's phone | long property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
One hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An hour and a half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 half | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 half | det |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 hour | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Half an hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 hour | det:predet |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No time at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | nmod |
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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