Test 9 · Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is

What would happen if Hamza set his alarm 10 minutes later, at 7:25, and did the same jobs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hamza · What happens: happen, set, do, alarm · To what, where: alarm, 7:25, same jobs

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 set	mark
5	Hamza	Hamza	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 alarm	nmod:poss
8	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 later	obl:unmarked
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 set	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 7:25	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 7:25	case
14	7:25	7:25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 set	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jobs	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jobs	amod
20	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 did	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set a condition, not said to happen	past	Hamza	Hamza's alarm	7:25	late property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme at 7:25=Destination
3	do	past	Hamza not said here	the same jobs			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
4	alarm		Hamza				nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He would be ready at 7:55 and miss the 7:50 bus

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	4 ready	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 7:55	case
6	7:55	7:55	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ready	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 miss	cc
8	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
10	7:50	7:50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 bus	nummod
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He			7:55		ready property	tree rules
2	miss	infinitive	He not said here	the 7:50 bus					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus

Option 2

He would be ready at exactly 7:50

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	4 ready	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 7:50	case
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 7:50	advmod
7	7:50	7:50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ready	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He			7:50		ready property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He would be ready at 7:45 with time to spare

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	4 ready	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 7:45	case
6	7:45	7:45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ready	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ready	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spare	mark
10	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He			7:45	time	ready property	tree rules
2	spare	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would be ready at 7:35, very early

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	4 ready	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 7:35	case
6	7:35	7:35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ready	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 7:35	punct
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 early	advmod
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ready	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He			7:35		early, ready property	tree rules

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