Test 11 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands
Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it. Long hand on the 6, short hand between 1 and 2. What's the time?"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: feed up, shut up, read, be · To what, where: Big brother, it, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 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
Sentence 1: Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brother | amod |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fed | punct |
| 4 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 fed | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shut | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shut | punct |
| 8 | Shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fed | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 Shut | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 read | cc |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Shut | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 read | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed up | participle · passive | Big brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shut up in a quote | infinitive | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | read in a quote | infinitive | it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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: Long hand on the 6, short hand between 1 and 2.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hand | amod |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 6 | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 6 | det |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hand | punct |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hand | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | conj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 1 | case |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hand | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 2 | cc |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 1 | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hand | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What's the time?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the time | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Six minutes past one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | past | past | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Half past six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 six | det:predet |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 six | amod |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Half past two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 two | det:predet |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 two | amod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Half past one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 one | det:predet |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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