Test 2 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time
Lily turned up at 3:30 to her German friend's "halb drei" party. How long had it been going?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, party · What happens: turn up, go · To what, where: 3:30
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Lily turned up at 3:30 to her German friend's "halb drei" party.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 3:30 | case |
| 5 | 3:30 | 3:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 turned | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 party | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friend | amod |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 party | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 drei | punct |
| 12 | halb | halb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drei | compound |
| 13 | drei | drei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 party | compound |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 drei | punct |
| 15 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn up | past | Lily | 3:30 | to Lily's German friend's drei party | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 3:30=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.
Sentence 2: How long had it been going?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 going | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect · progressive | party | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
30 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
It hadn't started yet
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 started | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 started | advmod |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not start | past · perfect · passive | It | yet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 3
2 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
1 hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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