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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.

nsubjdepcasedetnmodcasecompoundoblconjpunctconjccconjnummodobl:unmarkedccdetconjpunctroot★PROPN★X★ADPTheDETfilmNOUNstartsVERBàADPquatorzeNOUNheuresNOUNquaranteX-PUNCTcinqNOUNandCCONJlastsVERBoneNUMhourNOUNandCCONJaDEThalfNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1★★PROPNNumber=Sing6 startsnsubj
2★★XForeign=Yes1 ★dep
3★★ADP_5 filmcase
4ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 filmdet
5filmfilmNOUNNumber=Sing1 ★nmod
6startsstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7ààADP_9 heurescase
8quatorzequatorzeNOUNNumber=Sing9 heurescompound
9heuresheureNOUNNumber=Plur6 startsobl
10quarantequaranteXForeign=Yes9 heuresconj
11--PUNCT_12 cinqpunct
12cinqcinqNOUNNumber=Sing10 quaranteconj
13andandCCONJ_14 lastscc
14lastslastVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 startsconj
15oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 hournummod
16hourhourNOUNNumber=Sing14 lastsobl:unmarked
17andandCCONJ_19 halfcc
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 halfdet
19halfhalfNOUNNumber=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac16 hourconj
20..PUNCT_6 startspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1startpresent★ ★ the filmà quatorze heuresvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2lastpresent★ ★ the film not said herehourvn 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?

advmodauxnsubjpunctdetcompoundpunctcompoundobl:unmarkedpunctrootWhenADVdoesAUXitPRONendVERB,PUNCTtheDETclockNOUN-PUNCTfaceNOUNwayNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 endadvmod
2doesdoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 endaux
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 endnsubj
4endendVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5,,PUNCT_4 endpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 waydet
7clockclockNOUNNumber=Sing9 facecompound
8--PUNCT_7 clockpunct
9facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing10 waycompound
10waywayNOUNNumber=Sing4 endobl:unmarked
11??PUNCT_4 endpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1endpresent · do-supporthalfthe face wayvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

quatre heures et demie

compoundccconjrootquatreNOUNheuresNOUNetCCONJdemieNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1quatrequatreNOUNNumber=Sing2 heurescompound
2heuresheureNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
3etetCCONJ_4 demiecc
4demiedemieNOUNNumber=Sing2 heuresconj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

trois heures et quart

compoundccconjroottroisXheuresNOUNetCCONJquartNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1troistroisXForeign=Yes2 heurescompound
2heuresheureNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
3etetCCONJ_4 quartcc
4quartquartNOUNNumber=Sing2 heuresconj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

quatre heures et quart

compoundccconjrootquatreNOUNheuresNOUNetCCONJquartNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1quatrequatreNOUNNumber=Sing2 heurescompound
2heuresheureNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
3etetCCONJ_4 quartcc
4quartquartNOUNNumber=Sing2 heuresconj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

quatre heures moins le quart

compoundconjdetflatrootquatreNOUNheuresNOUNmoinsXleDETquartNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1quatrequatreNOUNNumber=Sing2 heurescompound
2heuresheureNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
3moinsmoinsXForeign=Yes2 heuresconj
4leleDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 quartdet
5quartquartNOUNNumber=Sing3 moinsflat

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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