Test 10 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time

What would happen if you went to every "quarter of" meeting in the USA at quarter past instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, go · To what, where: quarter

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 102 «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» 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	_	6 went	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 quarter	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 quarter	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 quarter	punct
10	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 meeting	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 meeting	punct
13	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quarter	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 USA	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 USA	det
16	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 meeting	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 past	case
18	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 past	compound
19	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meeting	nmod
20	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
21	?	?	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	go a condition, not said to happen	past	you			every quarter of meeting in the USA at quarter past		instead property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to quarter=Initial_Location

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You would always be 30 minutes late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 minutes	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 minutes	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 minutes	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 minutes	cop
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 minutes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	You	30 minutes				always, late property	tree rules

Option 2

You would always be exactly on time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 be	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 be	advmod
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 be	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	You				time	always, exactly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

You would always be an hour late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hour	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hour	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 hour	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hour	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hour	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	You	a hour				always, late property	tree rules

Option 4

You would always be 15 minutes early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 minutes	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 minutes	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 15	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 15	cop
5	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 minutes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		15				always property	tree rules

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