Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★
★★★ Dad: "Mars days are only a smidge longer, nothing really." The rover has worked 10 sols. How much more time is that than 10 Earth days?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mars days, rover, much more time · What happens: be, work · To what, where: smidge, 10 sols
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space 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: ★★★ Dad: "Mars days are only a smidge longer, nothing really."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dad | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dad | compound |
| 4 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 smidge | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 smidge | punct |
| 7 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 days | compound |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 smidge | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 smidge | cop |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 smidge | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 smidge | det |
| 12 | smidge | smidge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dad | appos |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 smidge | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 smidge | appos |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 nothing | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dad | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Mars days | a smidge | long property | 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: The rover has worked 10 sols.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rover | det |
| 2 | rover | rover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worked | aux |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 sols | nummod |
| 6 | sols | sol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · perfect | the rover | 10 sols | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How much more time is that than 10 Earth days?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 days | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 days | cop |
| 6 | that | that | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 10 | case |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 days | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | much more time | that 10 days | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
10 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
40 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | 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 · ✓ the right answer
6 hours 40 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hours | 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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