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Test 11 · Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is

Kai's sand timer is set for 2 minutes. He finishes in 30 seconds. "I'm dead, that was fast!" How many more seconds should he have brushed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: timer, I, that · What happens: set, finish, be, brush · To what, where: sand timer, many more seconds

This is test 11 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: Kai's sand timer is set for 2 minutes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 timer	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 timer	compound
4	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 set	aux:pass
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 minutes	case
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 minutes	nummod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present · passive		Kai's sand timer			minute		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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: He finishes in 30 seconds. "

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 finishes	nsubj
2	finishes	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 seconds	case
4	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 seconds	nummod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 finishes	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finishes	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 finishes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present	timer				second		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Sentence 3: I'm dead, that was fast!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dead	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 fast	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	cop
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 dead	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					dead property	tree rules
2	is	past	that					fast property	tree rules

Sentence 4: How many more seconds should he have brushed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seconds	amod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 seconds	amod
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brushed	nsubj:pass
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 brushed	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brushed	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 brushed	aux
8	brushed	brush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 brushed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	should · perfect · passive		many more seconds					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

60 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

90 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

30 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

120 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	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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