Test 11 · ★★ · Telling the time
★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one hour and a half. When does it end, the clock-face way?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, half · What happens: start, last, end · To what, where: face way
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Telling the time» of the French 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: ★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one hour and a half.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 film | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 film | det |
| 5 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | à | à | ADP | _ | 9 heures | case |
| 8 | quatorze | quatorze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heures | compound |
| 9 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 starts | obl |
| 10 | quarante | quarante | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 heures | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cinq | punct |
| 12 | cinq | cinq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quarante | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lasts | cc |
| 14 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 starts | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hour | nummod |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lasts | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 half | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 half | det |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 hour | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | ★ ★ the film | à quatorze heures | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | last | present | ★ ★ the film not said here | hour | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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: When does it end, the clock-face way?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 end | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 end | nsubj |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 7 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 clock | punct |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | compound |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present · do-support | half | the face way | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
quatre heures et demie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | compound |
| 2 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 4 demie | cc |
| 4 | demie | demie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
trois heures et quart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trois | trois | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 heures | compound |
| 2 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 4 quart | cc |
| 4 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
quatre heures et quart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | compound |
| 2 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 4 quart | cc |
| 4 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
quatre heures moins le quart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | compound |
| 2 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | moins | moins | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 heures | conj |
| 4 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 quart | det |
| 5 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moins | flat |
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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