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Test 6 · Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is

Jack timed Sofia at 35 seconds: "Nearly a minute, no cap!" Is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, cap · What happens: time, be · To what, where: Sofia

This is test 6 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: Jack timed Sofia at 35 seconds: "Nearly a minute, no cap!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 timed	nsubj
2	timed	time	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sofia	Sofia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 timed	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 seconds	case
5	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 seconds	nummod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 timed	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 minute	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 minute	punct
9	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 minute	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 minute	det
11	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 timed	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cap	det
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 minute	appos
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	time	past	Jack	Sofia			minute; second		vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sofia=Theme

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: Is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	cap						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

No, it is under half a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 minute	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 minute	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 minute	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 minute	case
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 minute	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					under half minute	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, 35 seconds is almost a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 minute	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 seconds	nummod
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 minute	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 minute	cop
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 minute	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	35 seconds	a minute				almost property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, a minute is 40 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 seconds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minute	det
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seconds	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seconds	cop
6	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 seconds	nummod
7	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a minute	40 seconds					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is just over half a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 minute	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 minute	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 minute	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 half	advmod
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 minute	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 minute	det
9	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	half minute					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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