Test 9 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time
Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt says, "Yinz gotta be there at quarter till three." When must they arrive?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pittsburgh aunt, they · What happens: say, be, arrive · To what, where: quarter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt says, "Yinz gotta be there at quarter till three."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler | Tyler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tyler | case |
| 3 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 aunt | compound |
| 4 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yinz | punct |
| 8 | Yinz | Yinz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | parataxis |
| 9 | gotta | gotta | PART | _ | 11 there | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Yinz | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 quarter | case |
| 13 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 there | obl |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 three | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 quarter | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yinz | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yinz | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt not said here | quarter till three | there property | 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: When must they arrive?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 arrive | advmod |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrive | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrive | nsubj |
| 4 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrive | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | must | they | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2:15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2:15 | 2:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3:45 | 3:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3:15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3:15 | 3:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
2:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2:45 | 2:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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