Test 8 · ★ · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day
Arjun says, "The train's 23:40 to 06:10, so it's 17 hours." What went wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arjun, train · What happens: say, be, go · To what, where: 17 hours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Arjun says, "The train's 23:40 to 06:10, so it's 17 hours."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arjun | Arjun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 23:40 | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 23:40 | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 train | det |
| 6 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 23:40 | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 train | case |
| 8 | 23:40 | 23:40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 06:10 | case |
| 10 | 06:10 | 06:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 23:40 | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hours | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 hours | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hours | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hours | cop |
| 15 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 hours | nummod |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 says | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Arjun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | train | 17 hours | 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: What went wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is really 7 hours 10 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hours | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hours | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 hours | advmod |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 7 hours | minute | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He subtracted the wrong way; across midnight it is 6 hours 30 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 subtracted | nsubj |
| 2 | subtracted | subtract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 subtracted | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 hours | punct |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 midnight | case |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hours | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hours | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hours | cop |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 hours | nummod |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 subtracted | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subtract | past | He | the wrong way | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | way | 6 hours | midnight; minute | tree rules |
Option 3
It is really 6 hours exactly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hours | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hours | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 6 | advmod |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 hours | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 6 hours | exactly property | tree rules |
Option 4
He is right, it is 17 hours long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 long | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | cop |
| 7 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 long | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | hour | long property | tree rules |
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