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Test 8 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time

Dev says "three quarters past seven" and the class laughs. Is he wrong about the time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dev, class · What happens: say, laugh, be · To what, where: three quarters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Dev says "three quarters past seven" and the class laughs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quarters	punct
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quarters	nummod
5	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obj
6	past	past	ADP	_	7 seven	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quarters	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quarters	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laughs	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 class	det
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laughs	nsubj
12	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dev	three quarters				past seven	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quarter=Topic
2	laugh	present	the class						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 wrong about the time?

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 wrong	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it is 7:45, just said in an unusual way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 7:45	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 7:45	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 7:45	cop
5	7:45	7:45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 7:45	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 way	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	7:45					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	participle				a unusual way			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in way=Manner

Option 2

Yes, three quarters past seven is 7:34

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 quarters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 quarters	nummod
4	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 seven	case
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 quarters	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 7:34	cop
8	7:34	7:34	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 seven	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		7:34					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it is 8:45

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 8:45	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 8:45	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 8:45	cop
5	8:45	8:45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	8:45					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it is 7:15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 7:15	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 7:15	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 7:15	cop
5	7:15	7:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	7:15					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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