Test 3 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line
footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live. What time for him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: footy, mate · What happens: start, want, watch, live · To what, where: 7, New York
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Time zones and the date line» of the geography 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: footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | footy | footy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 starts | obj |
| 4 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 York | case |
| 6 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 York | flat |
| 7 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wants | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wants | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 LA | case |
| 11 | LA | LA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | nmod |
| 12 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 starts | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 watch | mark |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wants | xcomp |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 watch | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | footy | 7 pm | New York | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | want | present | mate in LA | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | mate in LA not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | infinitive | mate in LA not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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: What time for him?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
4pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 4 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 1 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
10pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 10 | nmod:unmarked |
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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