Exam question 1 · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day
It is given that a train departs at 09:05 and arrives at 09:28. Determine the duration of the journey.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: train, you · What happens: give, depart, arrive, determine · To what, where: It, 09:05, 09:28, duration
This is exam question 1 of lesson 104 «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a train departs at 09:05 and arrives at 09:28.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 departs | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 train | det |
| 6 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 departs | nsubj |
| 7 | departs | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 09:05 | case |
| 9 | 09:05 | 09:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 departs | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arrives | cc |
| 11 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 departs | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 09:28 | case |
| 13 | 09:28 | 09:28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 arrives | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | depart | present | a train | 09:05 | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arrive | present | a train not said here | 09:28 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Determine the duration of the journey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duration | det |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 journey | det |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 duration | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the duration of the journey | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Thirty-three minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 three | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thirty | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twenty-eight minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eight | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Twenty-three minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 three | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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