Test 7 · ★ · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day
A Texan cousin says, "We're fixin' to leave for the 4:30 dance class; it's 45 minutes." When does the class end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Texan cousin, We, cousin · What happens: say, fixin, leave, be, do · To what, where: 45 minutes, class end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: A Texan cousin says, "We're fixin' to leave for the 4:30 dance class; it's 45 minutes."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cousin | det |
| 2 | Texan | texan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cousin | amod |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fixin | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fixin | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fixin | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fixin | aux |
| 9 | fixin | fixin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fixin | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fixin | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 class | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 class | det |
| 15 | 4:30 | 4:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 dance | nummod |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 class | compound |
| 17 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 minutes | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 minutes | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 minutes | cop |
| 21 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 minutes | nummod |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 minutes | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 minutes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Texan cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fixin in a quote | present · progressive | We | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | for the dance class | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for class=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | cousin | 45 minutes | tree rules |
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: When does the class end?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 does | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | compound |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the class end | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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 2
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.
Option 3
4:75
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4:75 | 4:75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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