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Test 10 · Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is

A cartoon hero says, "Count to three Mississippis, that's three minutes!" Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon hero, three Mississippis, you · What happens: say, count, be, put · To what, where: three minutes, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 105 «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» 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 cartoon hero says, "Count to three Mississippis, that's three minutes!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hero	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hero	compound
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Count	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Count	punct
7	Count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Mississippis	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 Mississippis	nummod
10	Mississippis	mississippi	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Count	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 minutes	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 minutes	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 minutes	cop
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 minutes	nummod
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Mississippis	acl:relcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Count	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a cartoon hero						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	count in a quote	infinitive						to three Mississippis	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to mississippi=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	three Mississippis	three 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: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is about three seconds

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 seconds	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seconds	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seconds	nummod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	three seconds					tree rules

Option 2

It is exactly three 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 minutes	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 minutes	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	three minutes					tree rules

Option 3

It is about three hours

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	about	about	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	three hours					tree rules

Option 4

It is about thirty seconds

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 seconds	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seconds	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 thirty	advmod
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seconds	nummod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	thirty seconds					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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