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Test 5 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time

Hannah's London friend turns up at 6 in the evening for "dinner at half twelve". What went wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: London friend · What happens: turn up, go · To what, where: 6

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Hannah's London friend turns up at 6 in the evening for "dinner at half twelve".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hannah	case
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 friend	compound
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	nsubj
5	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 turns	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 6	case
8	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 turns	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 evening	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dinner	punct
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 evening	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 twelve	case
16	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	17 twelve	det:predet
17	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 turns	obl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 twelve	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	Hannah's London friend			6	evening	at half twelve	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 6=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: What went wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Half twelve means six o'clock in London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	2 twelve	det:predet
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 o'clock	nummod
5	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 o'clock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	half twelve	six o'clock				in London	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot o'clock=Theme in london=Attribute

Option 2

The friend should have come at half past six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 six	case
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 six	det:predet
8	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 six	amod
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	should · perfect	the friend			half past six			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at six=Location

Option 3

Northerners eat dinner at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northerners	northerner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Northerners	dinner			midnight		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the north "dinner" can be the midday meal, at 12:30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 north	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 north	det
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meal	obl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dinner	punct
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 north	conj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 north	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 meal	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 meal	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meal	det
10	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meal	compound
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 12:30	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 12:30	case
14	12:30	12:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 meal	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can		the midday meal		the north and dinner			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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