Test 6 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

What would happen if a clock's two hands were exactly the same length?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: two hands · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: same length

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 length	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clock	det
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hands	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 clock	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hands	nummod
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 length	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 length	cop
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	14 length	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 length	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 length	amod
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	a clock's two hands	the same length				exactly property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1

It would show only o'clock times

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	3 show	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 o'clock	advmod
5	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 times	compound
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	It				time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You could not tell which hand shows the hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shows	nsubj
7	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	You						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show	present	which hand				hour		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The clock would run twice as 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 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 run	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	the clock					fast, twice property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would show seconds instead of minutes

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	3 show	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 minutes	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	It				minute; second		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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