Test 9 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes
★★★ Kwesi ran 60 metres in 11 seconds. The boy who teased him took 13 seconds, and last week Kwesi took 12. How many seconds faster than the teaser was Kwesi today?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, boy, last week, teaser · What happens: run, tease, take, be · To what, where: 60 metres, boy, 12
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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: ★★★ Kwesi ran 60 metres in 11 seconds.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Kwesi | case |
| 4 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 metres | nummod |
| 7 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 seconds | case |
| 9 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 seconds | nummod |
| 10 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | ★ ★ Kwesi | 60 metres | second | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory |
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: The boy who teased him took 13 seconds, and last week Kwesi took 12.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 teased | nsubj |
| 4 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 boy | acl:relcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 teased | obj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 seconds | nummod |
| 8 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 week | amod |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 13 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 week | appos |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 15 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | past | the boy | boy | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the boy | second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | last week | 12 | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many seconds faster than the teaser was Kwesi today?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seconds | amod |
| 3 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 Kwesi | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 teaser | det |
| 7 | teaser | teaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Kwesi | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Kwesi | cop |
| 9 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 faster | obl |
| 10 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 faster | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the teaser | than Kwesi | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
13
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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