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Test 7 · ★★ · Telling the time

Jacob in Glasgow says proudly, "Ah'm no late for once." ("Ah'm no" means I'm not.) When did his class start?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jacob, no · What happens: say, not be, be, mean, do, start · To what, where: no, class start · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Jacob in Glasgow says proudly, "Ah'm no late for once."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Glasgow	case
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jacob	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 late	punct
8	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 late	discourse
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 late	cop
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 late	advmod
11	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 says	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 late	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 late	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jacob in Glasgow					proudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present						late property	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: ("Ah'm no" means I'm not.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 no	punct
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 no	discourse
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 no	cop
5	no	no	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 no	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 'm	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	ccomp
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 'm	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		no					tree rules
2	mean	present	no						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: When did his class start?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 start	nmod:poss
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	compound
5	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		no's class start					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Eventuality
2	start		no						nom start «event transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

à neuf heures, at nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	à	à	X	Foreign=Yes	2 neuf	advmod
2	neuf	neuf	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 heures	nummod
3	heures	heure	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nine	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 nine	case
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 heures	appos

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

Option 2

nine minutes past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 past	obl:unmarked
3	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

after nine lessons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	ADP	_	3 lessons	case
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lessons	nummod
3	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

at nineteen hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 hours	case
2	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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