Exam question 4 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

Determine the interval required for the second hand to complete one revolution of the dial.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dial · What happens: determine, require, complete, revolt · To what, where: interval, one revolution

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 interval	det
3	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 interval	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 required	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 complete	mark
10	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 required	advcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 revolution	nummod
12	revolution	revolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 complete	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dial	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dial	det
15	dial	dial	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 revolution	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the interval		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic
2	require	participle		the interval not said here	for the second hand	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	complete	to-infinitive		one revolution of the dial		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolution=Eventuality
4	revolt		the dial			nom revolution «event intransitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sixty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word 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

Twelve hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word 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 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Twelve seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	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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