Test 7 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock
Isla laughs, "Your oven thinks it's morning, Nan!" when it shows AM at 11 at night. What probably happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Isla, oven · What happens: laugh, think, be, show am, happen · To what, where: morning, 11
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: Isla laughs, "Your oven thinks it's morning, Nan!" when it shows AM at 11 at night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thinks | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thinks | punct |
| 5 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 oven | nmod:poss |
| 6 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thinks | nsubj |
| 7 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughs | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 morning | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 morning | cop |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thinks | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nan | punct |
| 12 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 morning | appos |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nan | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 shows | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shows | nsubj |
| 17 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thinks | advcl |
| 18 | AM | am | ADP | _ | 17 shows | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 11 | case |
| 20 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 shows | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shows | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Isla | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Your oven | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | oven | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | show am | present | oven | 11 | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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: What probably happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The oven only shows morning times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oven | det |
| 2 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 shows | advmod |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 times | compound |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shows | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the oven | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Ovens always show the time in another country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ovens | oven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 show | advmod |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Ovens | another country | time | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
After a power cut it was reset with the wrong am or pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 power | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 power | det |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reset | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reset | aux:pass |
| 7 | reset | reset | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cut | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 am | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 am | det |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 am | amod |
| 11 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reset | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 pm | cc |
| 13 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 am | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | after a power | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reset | past · passive | power | with the wrong am or pm | tree rules |
Option 4
The oven runs 12 hours fast every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oven | det |
| 2 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 runs | obj |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 runs | advmod |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the oven | day; hour | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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