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Test 6 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time

Jake's mate laughs, "It's ten PAST, ya muppet, not ten after." Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: laugh, be · To what, where: ten PAST

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Jake's mate laughs, "It's ten PAST, ya muppet, not ten after."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughs	nsubj
4	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 PAST	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 PAST	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 PAST	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 PAST	cop
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 PAST	nummod
10	PAST	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughs	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 muppet	punct
12	ya	ya	INTJ	_	13 muppet	discourse
13	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 PAST	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ten	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 ten	advmod
16	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 muppet	appos
17	after	after	ADV	_	16 ten	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughs	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Jake's mate						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	mate	ten PAST and muppet					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: Who is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
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						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only the mate; "after" is not a real time word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 mate	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mate	det
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 after	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 after	punct
6	after	after	ADP	_	3 mate	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 after	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 word	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 word	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 word	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	compound
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the mate	a real time word					tree rules

Option 2

Neither; the time is five to ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 five	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 five	cop
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 ten	case
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 five	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the time	five				to ten; neither property	tree rules

Option 3

Only Jake; "past" is old-fashioned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Jake	advmod
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fashioned	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 past	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 past	punct
5	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jake	appos
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 past	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fashioned	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fashioned	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both are right; British say "past", Americans often say "after"

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 say	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	amod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	amod
6	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 past	punct
8	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 past	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Americans	punct
11	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 after	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	13 say	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 after	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Both	right British say					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Americans					often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent after=Topic

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