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Test 4 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time

Kyle comes home at 9:45 and says, "That's the back of nine, innit?" Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kyle, That · What happens: come, say, be, innit · To what, where: 9:45, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Kyle comes home at 9:45 and says, "That's the back of nine, innit?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 comes	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 9:45	case
5	9:45	9:45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 comes	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 says	cc
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
10	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 back	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 back	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 nine	case
15	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 back	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Kyle			9:45		home property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	present	Kyle not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	That	the back				of nine	tree rules
4	innit in a quote	infinitive							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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Kyle					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, the back of nine means before nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 nine	case
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 back	nmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 nine	case
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the back of nine				before nine		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, the back of nine means any time before ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 nine	case
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 back	nmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 ten	case
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the back of nine				before ten; time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, it means quarter to ten exactly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 ten	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quarter	nmod
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	quarter				to ten; exactly property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot quarter=Theme to ten=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, the back of nine is just after nine, so he is well late

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 nine	case
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 nine	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nine	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 nine	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 nine	case
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 back	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 late	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 late	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 late	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 late	cop
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 late	advmod
16	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 back	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	nine					of nine	tree rules
2	is	present	he					late, well property	tree rules

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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