Exam question 3 · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day

Whereas a class commencing at 4:30 continues for forty-five minutes, state the time of its conclusion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class, state · What happens: commence, conclude · To what, where: 4:30 continues

This is exam question 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	3 class	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	commencing	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 class	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 continues	case
6	4:30	4:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 continues	nummod
7	continues	continue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 commencing	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 minutes	case
9	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 five	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 forty	punct
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 minutes	nummod
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 commencing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 state	punct
14	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 class	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 state	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 conclusion	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 conclusion	nmod:poss
19	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 class	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commence	gerund	a class and state the time of state's conclusion not said here			4:30 continues	minute		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	conclude		state						nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

5:45

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5:45	5:45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

5:00

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5:00	5:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

5:15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5:15	5:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

5:30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5:30	5:30	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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