Exam question 4 · Late and early: being where you need to be on time
Ascertain the aggregate time lost by a pupil arriving ten minutes late upon each of one hundred and ninety school days.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pupil · What happens: ascertain, lose, arrive · To what, where: aggregate time
This is exam question 4 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 time | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pupil | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pupil | det |
| 8 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 9 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 pupil | acl |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 minutes | nummod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 late | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 arriving | advmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 arriving | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ninety | cc |
| 19 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | conj |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 days | compound |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 each | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | time | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | the aggregate time not said here | by a pupil | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | arrive | gerund | a pupil not said here | upon each; late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
One hundred and ninety minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ninety | cc |
| 4 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two hundred minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One thousand nine hundred minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 nine | compound |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nineteen thousand minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | 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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