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Test 8 · Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is

Esme, a bit delulu (believing something silly): "Microwave says 1:30, popcorn's gonna take an hour and a half." What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Esme, 1:30 popcorn, truth · What happens: believe, say, take, be · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Esme, a bit delulu (believing something silly): "Microwave says 1:30, popcorn's gonna take an hour and a half."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Esme	Esme	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Esme	appos
5	delulu	delulu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 bit	flat:foreign
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 believing	punct
7	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bit	appos
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 believing	obj
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 believing	punct
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	Microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	1:30	1:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 popcorn	nummod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 1:30	punct
17	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	nsubj
18	's	's	PART	_	17 popcorn	case
19	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	20 take	dep
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hour	det
22	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 half	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 half	det
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	22 hour	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	gerund		something					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Esme						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	infinitive	1:30 popcorn				hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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's the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is 13 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	4 minutes	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 minutes	cop
3	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	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	13 minutes					tree rules

Option 2

It is 130 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	4 seconds	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seconds	cop
3	130	130	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 seconds	nummod
4	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	130 seconds					tree rules

Option 3

It is 1 hour 30 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	4 hour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hour	cop
3	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 hour	nummod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hour	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is 1 minute 30 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	4 minute	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 minute	cop
3	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minute	nummod
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 seconds	nummod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 minute	obl:unmarked

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