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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.

amodnsubj:passpunctcompound:prtpunctpunctparataxiscompound:prtccconjobjpunctrootBigADJbrotherNOUN,PUNCTfedVERBupADP:PUNCT"PUNCTShutVERBupADPandCCONJreadVERBitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BigbigADJDegree=Pos2 brotheramod
2brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing4 fednsubj:pass
3,,PUNCT_4 fedpunct
4fedfeedVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5upupADP_4 fedcompound:prt
6::PUNCT_8 Shutpunct
7""PUNCT_8 Shutpunct
8ShutshutVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin4 fedparataxis
9upupADP_8 Shutcompound:prt
10andandCCONJ_11 readcc
11readreadVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin8 Shutconj
12ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 readobj
13..PUNCT_4 fedpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1feed upparticiple · passiveBig brothertree rules
2shut up in a quoteinfinitivevn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3read in a quoteinfinitiveitvn 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.

amodcasedetnmodpunctamodconjcasenmodccconjpunctrootLongADJhandNOUNonADPtheDET6NUM,PUNCTshortADJhandNOUNbetweenADP1NUMandCCONJ2NUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LonglongADJDegree=Pos2 handamod
2handhandNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3ononADP_5 6case
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 6det
566NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 handnmod
6,,PUNCT_8 handpunct
7shortshortADJDegree=Pos8 handamod
8handhandNOUNNumber=Sing2 handconj
9betweenbetweenADP_10 1case
1011NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card8 handnmod
11andandCCONJ_12 2cc
1222NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card10 1conj
13..PUNCT_2 handpunct

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

Sentence 3: What's the time?"

nsubjcopdetpunctpunctrootWhatPRON'sAUXtheDETtimeNOUN?PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int4 timensubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 timecop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 timedet
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5??PUNCT_4 timepunct
6""PUNCT_4 timepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentthe timetree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Six minutes past one

nummodcasenmodrootSixNUMminutesNOUNpastADPoneNUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SixsixNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 minutesnummod
2minutesminuteNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
3pastpastADP_4 onecase
4oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 minutesnmod

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

Option 2

Half past six

det:predetamodrootHalfDETpastADJsixNUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HalfhalfDETNumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind3 sixdet:predet
2pastpastADJDegree=Pos3 sixamod
3sixsixNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Cardrootroot

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

Option 3

Half past two

det:predetamodrootHalfDETpastADJtwoNUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HalfhalfDETNumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind3 twodet:predet
2pastpastADJDegree=Pos3 twoamod
3twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Cardrootroot

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Half past one

det:predetamodrootHalfDETpastADJoneNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HalfhalfDETNumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind3 onedet:predet
2pastpastADJDegree=Pos3 oneamod
3oneoneNOUNNumber=Singrootroot

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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