Exam question 2 · Late and early: being where you need to be on time
Whereas a party departs at 9:25 upon a drive of fifty minutes, and check-in closes at 10:30, ascertain the time remaining upon arrival.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: check, time · What happens: depart, close, ascertain, remain, drive · To what, where: 9:25, 10:30, arrival, fifty minutes
This is exam question 2 of lesson 106 «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 3 party | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departs | obl |
| 4 | departs | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 9:25 | case |
| 6 | 9:25 | 9:25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 departs | obl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 drive | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drive | det |
| 9 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departs | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 minutes | case |
| 11 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 minutes | nummod |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drive | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 closes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 closes | cc |
| 15 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 closes | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 17 | in | in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 check | compound |
| 18 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 departs | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 10:30 | case |
| 20 | 10:30 | 10:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 closes | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ascertain | punct |
| 22 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 closes | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ascertain | obj |
| 25 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 time | acl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 arrival | case |
| 27 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 remaining | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 departs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | present | 9:25 | whereas a party; upon a drive of fifty minutes | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | present | check | 10:30 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ascertain | infinitive | check not said here | time | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain | gerund | the time not said here | arrival | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon arrival=Location | ||||
| 5 | drive | fifty minutes | nom drive «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Fifteen minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No time whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 time | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Twenty-five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 five | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | 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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