Test 8 · ★★ · The internet and undersea cables
Count them: a film has 90 minutes and the app stores 2 minutes ahead. You have watched 30 minutes. How far into the film has the app loaded?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, film, app · What happens: count, have, store, watch, load · To what, where: them, app, film
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 37 «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology 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: Count them: a film has 90 minutes and the app stores 2 minutes ahead.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 film | det |
| 5 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stores | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 app | det |
| 11 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stores | nsubj |
| 12 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | conj |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stores | obj |
| 15 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 12 stores | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a film | minute | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | store | present | the app | minute | ahead property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: You have watched 30 minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | aux |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watched | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · perfect | You | minute | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How far into the film has the app loaded?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 has | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 film | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 film | det |
| 5 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obl |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 app | det |
| 8 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 app | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the app | the film | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent app=Patient | |||
| 2 | load | participle | the app not said here | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
32 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | 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
92 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92 | 92 | 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
30 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | 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
60 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | 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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