Exam question 3 · Ill on match day: play or stay home?
It is given that a child last vomited at six o'clock on Friday evening. Determine the earliest time at which the forty-eight-hour period expires.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, you, hour period · What happens: give, last, vomit, determine, expire · To what, where: It, six o'clock
This is exam question 3 of lesson 60 «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» 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 child last vomited at six o'clock on Friday evening.
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 last | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 last | nsubj |
| 7 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | vomited | vomit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 last | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 o'clock | case |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 o'clock | nummod |
| 11 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vomited | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 13 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 evening | compound |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vomited | 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 | last | infinitive | a child | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vomit | participle | a child not said here | six o'clock | evening | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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: Determine the earliest time at which the forty-eight-hour period expires.
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 time | det |
| 3 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 expires | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 period | det |
| 8 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hour | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 eight | punct |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 forty | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 eight | punct |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 period | compound |
| 13 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 expires | nsubj |
| 14 | expires | expire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | time | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | expire | present | the hour period | at the earliest time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Six o'clock on Monday evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | compound |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o'clock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Six o'clock on Saturday evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | compound |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o'clock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Six o'clock on Saturday morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 4 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | compound |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o'clock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Six o'clock on Sunday evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | compound |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o'clock | 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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