Test 3 · ★ · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day
Jade, Singapore style: "Bus every 12 minutes from seven, want to catch at 7:30, can or not?" What's the answer?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jade, answer · What happens: want, catch, be · To what, where: 7:30
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 104 «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» 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: Jade, Singapore style: "Bus every 12 minutes from seven, want to catch at 7:30, can or not?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 want | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 style | punct |
| 3 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 style | compound |
| 4 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jade | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bus | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bus | punct |
| 7 | Bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jade | conj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 minutes | det |
| 9 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 minutes | nummod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Bus | appos |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 seven | case |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 minutes | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jade | punct |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 want | xcomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 7:30 | case |
| 18 | 7:30 | 7:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 catch | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 can | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | xcomp |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 not | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 can | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Jade and Singapore style and Bus | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Jade and Singapore style and Bus not said here | 7:30 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at 7:30=Asset |
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's the answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Not exactly; buses come at 7:24 and 7:36
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 4 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 7:24 | case |
| 7 | 7:24 | 7:24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 7:36 | cc |
| 9 | 7:36 | 7:36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 7:24 | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | present | buses | 7:24 | exactly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7:24=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, buses come at 7:15 and 7:30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 7:15 | case |
| 6 | 7:15 | 7:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 7:30 | cc |
| 8 | 7:30 | 7:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 7:15 | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | buses | 7:15 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7:15=Location |
Option 3
Yes, there is a bus at exactly 7:30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 is | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bus | det |
| 6 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 7:30 | case |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 7:30 | advmod |
| 9 | 7:30 | 7:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 is | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a bus | 7:30; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7:30=Location |
Option 4
No, the next bus after 7:00 is at 8:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 8:00 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bus | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bus | amod |
| 5 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 8:00 | nsubj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 7:00 | case |
| 7 | 7:00 | 7:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 bus | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 8:00 | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 8:00 | case |
| 10 | 8:00 | 8:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the next bus after 7:00 | 8:00 | tree rules |
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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