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Test 5 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

Jack moans, "Nan's clock is well sus, it's got letters, not numbers." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack, clock · What happens: moan, be, get · To what, where: sus got letters

This is test 5 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: Jack moans, "Nan's clock is well sus, it's got letters, not numbers."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moans	nsubj
2	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sus	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sus	punct
5	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 clock	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Nan	case
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sus	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sus	cop
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 sus	advmod
10	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 letters	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 got	aux
14	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 letters	amod
15	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 moans	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 numbers	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 numbers	advmod
18	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 letters	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moans	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Jack	sus got letters and numbers					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	Nan's clock					suspect, well property	tree rules
3	get in a quote	present · passive	clock						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It is a clock made for people of another language

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	4 clock	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clock	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 clock	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl:agent
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 language	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 language	det
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a clock					tree rules
2	make	participle		a clock not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

It is only a decoration and cannot tell time

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 decoration	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 decoration	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 decoration	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 decoration	det
5	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 decoration	conj
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a decoration					tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	can					time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are Roman numerals, numbers written with letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 numerals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 numerals	cop
3	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 numerals	amod
4	numerals	numeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 numbers	punct
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 numerals	conj
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 numbers	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 letters	case
9	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	Roman numerals and numbers					tree rules
2	write	participle		numbers not said here				with letters	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The letters are the names of the twelve hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letters	det
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 names	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 names	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 names	det
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 hours	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hours	det
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hours	nummod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 names	nmod

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

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