Exam question 3 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock

Whereas an employment shift commences at 22:00 and terminates at 06:00, determine its aggregate duration.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: employment shift, you · What happens: commence, terminate, determine · To what, where: 22:00, 06:00, aggregate duration

This is exam question 3 of lesson 103 «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 commences	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shift	det
3	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shift	compound
4	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 commences	nsubj
5	commences	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 determine	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 22:00	case
7	22:00	22:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 commences	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 terminates	cc
9	terminates	terminate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 commences	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 06:00	case
11	06:00	06:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 terminates	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 determine	punct
13	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 duration	nmod:poss
15	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 duration	compound
16	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 determine	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	commence	present	a employment shift		22:00	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	terminate	present	a employment shift not said here		06:00	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	shift's aggregate duration		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Four hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Sixteen hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Eight hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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