Test 6 · ★ · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day
Maya's grandpa, a proper boomer: "Back in my day we had no TV guide." Maya's cartoon is at 17:30 and it's 16:50. How long till it starts?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandpa, cartoon, Maya · What happens: have, be, cartoon, start · To what, where: TV guide, 17:30, 16:50
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Maya's grandpa, a proper boomer: "Back in my day we had no TV guide."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maya | case |
| 3 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 boomer | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boomer | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boomer | amod |
| 7 | boomer | boomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Back | punct |
| 10 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 13 day | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 guide | det |
| 17 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guide | compound |
| 18 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Maya's grandpa and a proper boomer | no TV guide | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guide=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: Maya's cartoon is at 17:30 and it's 16:50.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cartoon | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maya | case |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 17:30 | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 17:30 | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 17:30 | case |
| 6 | 17:30 | 17:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 16:50 | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 16:50 | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 16:50 | cop |
| 10 | 16:50 | 16:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 17:30 | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 17:30 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Maya's cartoon | 17:30 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | cartoon | 16:50 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cartoon | Maya | nom cartoon «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Sentence 3: How long till it starts?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 starts | advmod |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 starts | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 starts | nsubj |
| 5 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | cartoon | long property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1 hour 40 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minutes | compound |
| 3 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hour | flat |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
50 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
40 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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