Exam question 2 · Olympiad: body numbers, clocks and scores ★★★
A pupil's alarm is set for 7:00 am and eleven hours of sleep are required. State the latest time by which sleep should begin.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, latest time · What happens: set, require, alarm, begin · To what, where: alarm, eleven hours, State
This is exam question 2 of lesson 76 «Olympiad: body numbers, clocks and scores ★★★» 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: A pupil's alarm is set for 7:00 am and eleven hours of sleep are required.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alarm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pupil | case |
| 4 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 7:00 | case |
| 8 | 7:00 | 7:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 set | obl |
| 9 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 7:00 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hours | cc |
| 11 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hours | nummod |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 required | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hours | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 required | aux:pass |
| 16 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 set | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · passive | a pupil's alarm | for 7:00 am | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for 7:00=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | require | present · passive | eleven hours of sleep | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | alarm | a pupil | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=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: State the latest time by which sleep should begin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begin | nsubj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 6 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 7 sleep | det |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 begin | aux |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 State | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | should | the latest time by which sleep | State not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
9:00 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:00 | 9:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 9:00 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
7:00 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:00 | 7:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 7:00 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
8:00 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8:00 | 8:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 8:00 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
6:00 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6:00 | 6:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 6:00 | 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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