Exam question 3 · Sore the next day, stretching and rest days
It is given that a pupil retires at midnight and rises at seven o'clock. Determine the deficit relative to retiring at nine o'clock and rising at the same hour.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: give, retire, rise, determine · To what, where: It, seven o'clock, deficit relative, nine o'clock
This is exam question 3 of lesson 39 «Sore the next day, stretching and rest days» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 given that a pupil retires at midnight and rises at seven o'clock.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 retires | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pupil | det |
| 6 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retires | nsubj |
| 7 | retires | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 midnight | case |
| 9 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retires | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rises | cc |
| 11 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 retires | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 o'clock | case |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 o'clock | nummod |
| 14 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rises | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | retire | present | a pupil | midnight | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rise | present | a pupil not said here | seven o'clock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at o'clock=Location |
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: Determine the deficit relative to retiring at nine o'clock and rising at the same hour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 relative | det |
| 3 | deficit | deficit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 relative | compound |
| 4 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 6 retiring | mark |
| 6 | retiring | retire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Determine | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 o'clock | case |
| 8 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 o'clock | nummod |
| 9 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retiring | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rising | cc |
| 11 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 retiring | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 hour | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hour | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hour | amod |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rising | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the deficit relative | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Topic | ||||
| 2 | retire | gerund | you not said here | nine o'clock | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | you not said here | hour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Seven hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Three hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ten hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | 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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