Test 5 · ★ · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day
The lifeguard says no to Josh at 5:20, even though the pool closes at 6. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lifeguard, pool · What happens: say, close · To what, where: no, Josh, 5:20, 6 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: The lifeguard says no to Josh at 5:20, even though the pool closes at 6.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lifeguard | det |
| 2 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 says | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Josh | case |
| 6 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 5:20 | case |
| 8 | 5:20 | 5:20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 says | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 closes | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 closes | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 closes | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pool | det |
| 13 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closes | nsubj |
| 14 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 6 | case |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 closes | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the lifeguard | no | Josh | 5:20 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to josh=Recipient | ||
| 2 | close | present | the pool | 6 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The pool had already closed at 5:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pool | det |
| 2 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 closed | advmod |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 5:00 | case |
| 7 | 5:00 | 5:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 closed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · perfect | the pool | 5:00 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Swimming always stops 40 minutes early
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 stops | advmod |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stops | obj |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stops | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Swimming | minute | always, early property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
The lifeguard was just being mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lifeguard | det |
| 2 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 mean | advmod |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 mean | cop |
| 6 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lifeguard | mean property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Last entry was 5:15, before closing time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 entry | amod |
| 2 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 5:15 | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 5:15 | cop |
| 4 | 5:15 | 5:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 closing | punct |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 closing | mark |
| 7 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 5:15 | conj |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 closing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Last entry | 5:15 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close | gerund | Last entry not said here | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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