Test 3 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time
Sean's mum reads "come round this arvo" and asks, "Is that the morning?" What does "arvo" mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, arvo · What happens: read, come round, ask, be, mean · To what, where: arvo, morning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Sean's mum reads "come round this arvo" and asks, "Is that the morning?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sean | Sean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sean | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reads | nsubj |
| 4 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 morning | parataxis |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reads | ccomp |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 arvo | det |
| 9 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asks | cc |
| 12 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reads | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asks | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asks | punct |
| 15 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 morning | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 morning | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 morning | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 morning | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | Sean's mum | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come round in a quote | infinitive | Sean's mum not said here | this arvo | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | Sean's mum not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the morning | 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.
Sentence 2: What does "arvo" mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 arvo | punct |
| 4 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 arvo | punct |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | arvo | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Tomorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Afternoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afternoon | afternoon | 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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