Test 5 · Adverts and how they work on you
Mo groans, "An ad every 3 minutes, this is doing my head in, bro." He plays for an hour. How many ads?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mo, this · What happens: groan, do, play · To what, where: ad, head
This is test 5 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» 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: Mo groans, "An ad every 3 minutes, this is doing my head in, bro."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mo | Mo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 groans | nsubj |
| 2 | groans | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ad | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ad | punct |
| 5 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ad | det |
| 6 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 groans | obl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 minutes | det |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 groans | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 doing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 doing | aux |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 groans | advcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doing | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 doing | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bro | punct |
| 18 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doing | vocative |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 groans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | present | Mo | a ad | minute | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | this | my head | bro vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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: He plays for an hour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Mo | hour | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many ads?
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 | 3 ads | amod |
| 3 | ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ads | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 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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