Test 10 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock

What would happen if a train timetable used a 12-hour clock without am or pm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: train timetable · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: 12-hour clock

This is test 10 of lesson 103 «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 used	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 timetable	det
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 timetable	compound
7	timetable	timetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 clock	det
10	12-hour	12-hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clock	compound
11	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obj
12	without	without	ADP	_	13 am	case
13	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 pm	cc
15	pm	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 am	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use a condition, not said to happen	past	a train timetable	a 12-hour clock				without am or pm	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

People could turn up 12 hours early or late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 turn	compound:prt
5	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 hours	nummod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obj
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 turn	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 late	cc
9	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 early	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	could	People				hour	early property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

All trains would run at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 trains	det
2	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	all trains				night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Trains would have to run twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 run	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Trains						tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	Trains not said here					fast, twice property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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