Exam question 2 · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time
It is given that an appointment is fixed for "quarter to seven". Ascertain the corresponding time in digital notation.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, fix, ascertain, correspond · To what, where: It, appointment, digital notation
This is exam question 2 of lesson 102 «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that an appointment is fixed for "quarter to seven".
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fixed | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 appointment | det |
| 6 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fixed | aux:pass |
| 8 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 quarter | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 quarter | punct |
| 11 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 seven | case |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 quarter | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 quarter | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fix | present · passive | a appointment | for quarter to seven | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for quarter=Beneficiary |
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: Ascertain the corresponding time in digital notation.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 notation | case |
| 6 | digital | digital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 notation | amod |
| 7 | notation | notation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | digital notation | time | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | correspond | gerund | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
7:15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:15 | 7:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
7:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:45 | 7:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
6:15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6:15 | 6:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
6:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6:45 | 6:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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