Test 5 · ★★ · Telling the time
Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something? Y'all are making clocks hard." What is cinq heures moins dix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, Y'all · What happens: say, make, be · To what, where: clocks, cinq heures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Dallas | case |
| 3 | Dallas | Dallas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jake | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hours | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hours | punct |
| 7 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | obj |
| 9 | minus | minus | ADP | _ | 10 something | case |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 hours | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jake in Dallas | hour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: Y'all are making clocks hard."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Y'all | y'all | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 making | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | aux |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 making | obj |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 making | xcomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · progressive | Y'all | clocks | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clock=Product |
Sentence 3: What is cinq heures moins dix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 heures | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heures | cop |
| 3 | cinq | cinq | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 heures | nummod |
| 4 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | moins | moins | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 dix | compound |
| 6 | dix | dix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heures | appos |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 heures | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cinq heures | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
ten past five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | past | past | ADP | _ | 3 five | case |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 ten | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ten to four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 four | case |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 ten | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
five past ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | past | past | ADP | _ | 3 ten | case |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 five | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
ten to five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 five | case |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 ten | 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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