Test 4 · Taking without paying: the consequences
Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now." Before it was 5 minutes. How many extra minutes is a trip there and back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, many extra minutes · What happens: moan, walk, be · To what, where: trip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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: Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ben | case |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moans | nsubj |
| 4 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 walk | punct |
| 6 | gotta | gotta | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 walk | dep |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 moans | ccomp |
| 8 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 walk | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 walk | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 walk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moan | present | Ben's cousin | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | infinitive | Ben's cousin not said here | now; minute | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Before it was 5 minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 5 minutes | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 minutes | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 minutes | cop |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 minutes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cousin | before 5 minutes | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How many extra minutes is a trip there and back?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trip | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 trip | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trip | det |
| 7 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 trip | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 back | cc |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 there | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 trip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many extra minutes | a trip | there | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
70
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
80
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
35
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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