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Test 2 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four, so two o'clock?" What does it really mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: hear, ask, mean · To what, where: four, Half

This is test 2 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: Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four, so two o'clock?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mia	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hears	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 America	case
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod
6	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 four	punct
8	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 four	det:predet
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hears	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 four	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asks	cc
12	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hears	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Half	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Half	punct
15	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 asks	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 four	case
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Half	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 o'clock	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 o'clock	advmod
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 o'clock	nummod
21	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hears	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 o'clock	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 o'clock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Mia's cousin from America	half four					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	Mia's cousin from America not said here	Half of four					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Recipient

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: What does it really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	cousin						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Two o'clock, 2:00

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 o'clock	punct
4	2:00	2:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 o'clock	appos

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

Option 2

Quarter past four, 4:15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	past	past	ADP	_	3 four	case
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Quarter	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 4:15	punct
5	4:15	4:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 four	flat

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

Option 3

Half past three, 3:30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
2	past	past	ADP	_	3 three	case
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Half	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 3:30	punct
5	3:30	3:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 three	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Half past four, 4:30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 four	advmod
2	past	past	ADP	_	3 four	case
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 4:30	punct
5	4:30	4:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 four	flat

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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