Test 10 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

A phone game shows the long hand on 12 and the short hand on 3 and asks, "Is it 12:03?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phone game, game · What happens: show, ask, be · To what, where: long hand, 12, 12:03 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 101 «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	compound
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 12	case
9	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 hand	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hand	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hand	det
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hand	amod
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 3	case
15	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 hand	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asks	cc
17	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 12:03	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 12:03	punct
20	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 12:03	cop
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 12:03	nsubj
22	12:03	12:03	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 shows	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	show	present	a phone game	the long hand and the short hand on 3	12	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	present	a phone game not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	game	12:03		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, three minutes past twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 minutes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 twelve	case
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nmod

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

Option 2

No, it is quarter past twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 quarter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quarter	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quarter	cop
5	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 twelve	amod
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quarter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	quarter				past twelve nmod	tree rules

Option 3

No, it is twelve minutes past three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 minutes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 minutes	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 minutes	cop
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	past	past	ADP	_	8 three	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	twelve minutes				past three	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is three o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 o'clock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 o'clock	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 o'clock	cop
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 o'clock	nummod
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	three o'clock					tree rules

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