Exam question 1 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

Identify which hand of an analogue clock, that is, a clock with hands, indicates the hour.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, that · What happens: identify, be, indicate · To what, where: hand, clock

This is exam question 1 of lesson 101 «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 hand	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 clock	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clock	det
6	analogue	analogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clock	compound
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clock	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 clock	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 clock	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 clock	det
13	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 hands	case
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 clock	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 indicates	punct
17	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 indicates	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	which hand of a analogue clock and a clock			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	is a	present	that	a clock		with hands	tree rules
3	indicate	present			hour		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

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.

The options

Option 1

The longer hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The thinnest hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	thinnest	thin	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The hand indicating the twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	indicating	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hand	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 twelve	det
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 indicating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	gerund	the hand not said here	the twelve					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot twelve=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The shorter hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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