Test 12 · ★★ · Telling the time
★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. Max's bus comes in twenty minutes. What time does it come?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It, bus, time · What happens: be, come
This is test 12 · ★★ 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: ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 7 heures | case |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heures | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heures | cop |
| 6 | deux | deux | NUM | NumType=Card | 7 heures | nummod |
| 7 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 8 | moins | moins | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 heures | conj |
| 9 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 quart | det |
| 10 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moins | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | ★ deux heures | tree rules |
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: Max's bus comes in twenty minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bus | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Max | case |
| 3 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comes | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Max's bus | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: What time does it come?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | what time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
deux heures cinq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deux | deux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | compound |
| 2 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cinq | compound |
| 3 | cinq | cinq | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
une heure cinq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | une | une | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 cinq | dep |
| 2 | heure | heure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cinq | compound |
| 3 | cinq | cinq | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
deux heures et quart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deux | deux | 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
deux heures moins cinq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deux | deux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heures | compound |
| 2 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cinq | nmod:poss |
| 3 | moins | moins | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 heures | flat:foreign |
| 4 | cinq | cinq | NOUN | 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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