Test 4 · ★★ · Late and early: being where you need to be on time
Freya's gran, proper tamping: "Roast was ready at six. You rolled in at twenty to seven!" How late were they?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Roast, You · What happens: be, roll in · To what, where: six, twenty, gran
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 106 «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» 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: Freya's gran, proper tamping: "Roast was ready at six.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freya | Freya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Freya | case |
| 3 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tamping | punct |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tamping | amod |
| 6 | tamping | tamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gran | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 ready | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ready | punct |
| 9 | Roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ready | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ready | cop |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gran | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 six | case |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 ready | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Roast | six | ready property | tree rules |
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: You rolled in at twenty to seven!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 rolled | nsubj |
| 2 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 rolled | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 twenty | case |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 rolled | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 seven | case |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 twenty | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 rolled | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 rolled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll in | past | You | twenty to seven | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at twenty=Trajectory |
Sentence 3: How late were they?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 late | advmod |
| 2 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 they | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 they | cop |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 they | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gran | late property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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
7 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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 · ✓ the right answer
40 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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 4
1 hour 20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minutes | compound |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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