Test 7 · ★★ · Seasons and tides
Today the high tide was at 9 in the morning. About when will it be tomorrow?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: high tide, tide · What happens: be · To what, where: 9
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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: Today the high tide was at 9 in the morning.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 9 | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tide | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tide | amod |
| 4 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 9 | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 9 | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 9 | case |
| 7 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 9 | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 9 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the high tide | 9 | morning; today | tree rules |
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: About when will it be tomorrow?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 5 be | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 be | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 be | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | future | tide | about property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About two hours earlier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
At exactly the same time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 time | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
At midnight, when tides peak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peak | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 midnight | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 peak | advmod |
| 5 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 peak | nsubj |
| 6 | peak | peak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peak | present | tides | midnight | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 50 minutes later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 50 | advmod |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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