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

Ruby: "Dad, the clock's broken, the skinny hand is zooming round!" What is really going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skinny hand · What happens: break, zoom, go on · To what, where: Ruby

This is test 4 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: Ruby: "Dad, the clock's broken, the skinny hand is zooming round!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 broken	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Dad	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Dad	punct
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ruby	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 broken	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 broken	nsubj:pass
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 broken	aux:pass
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 zooming	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hand	det
12	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hand	amod
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 zooming	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 zooming	aux
15	zooming	zoom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 broken	conj
16	round	round	ADV	_	15 zooming	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 broken	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	present · passive		Ruby					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	zoom in a quote	present · progressive	the skinny hand					round property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 is really going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 going	compound:prt
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The clock is broken; no hand should move that fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 move	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 move	aux
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 broken	parataxis
10	that	that	ADV	_	9 move	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		the clock					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	move	should	no hand					fast, that property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That is the second hand; it goes round once a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 hand	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 hand	amod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	parataxis
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 goes	advmod
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 goes	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 minute	det
12	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the second hand					tree rules
2	go round	present	hand					once, round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is the hour hand on fast-forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hand	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hand	compound
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 fast	case
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
9	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the hour hand					tree rules

Option 4

It is the minute hand, so the clock is running fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hand	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hand	compound
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 running	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 running	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clock	det
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 running	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 running	aux
11	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hand	conj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the minute hand					tree rules
2	run	present · progressive	the clock					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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