Test 1 · Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout
Josh's dad grumbles "bloody hell, only one till open." 12 people in front, 2 minutes each. How long will they wait?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, people · What happens: grumble, wait · To what, where: bloody hell
This is test 1 of lesson 14 «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» of the money 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: Josh's dad grumbles "bloody hell, only one till open."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Josh | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grumbles | nsubj |
| 4 | grumbles | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hell | punct |
| 6 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hell | amod |
| 7 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grumbles | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hell | appos |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 open | case |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grumble speech: other | present | Josh's dad | bloody hell | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hell=Topic |
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: 12 people in front, 2 minutes each.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 people | nummod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 minutes | punct |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 minutes | det |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: How long will they wait?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | future | people | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
14 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
24 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | 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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