Exam question 3 · Gaming nights and the morning after
It is given that a participant commences sleep at two o'clock and rises at eight o'clock. State the duration of sleep obtained.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: participant, you · What happens: give, commence, rise, state, obtain · To what, where: It, sleep, two o'clock, eight o'clock, duration
This is exam question 3 of lesson 57 «Gaming nights and the morning after» 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 participant commences sleep at two o'clock and rises at eight 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 commences | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 participant | det |
| 6 | participant | participant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commences | nsubj |
| 7 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commences | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 o'clock | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 o'clock | nummod |
| 11 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commences | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rises | cc |
| 13 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 commences | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 o'clock | case |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 o'clock | nummod |
| 16 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rises | obl |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | commence | present | a participant | sleep | two o'clock | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | rise | present | a participant not said here | eight 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: State the duration of sleep obtained.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duration | det |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sleep | case |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 duration | nmod |
| 6 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 duration | acl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the duration of sleep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | obtain | participle | the duration of sleep not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
Eight hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Six hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | 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
Four hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | 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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