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Test 6 · ★★ · Late and early: being where you need to be on time

Toby: "Ready in two secs!" Ten minutes later his sister yells, "Two secs my backside, I'm going without you!" What's her point?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, point · What happens: yell, go, be, point · To what, where: Two secs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Toby: "Ready in two secs!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toby	Toby	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Ready	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Ready	punct
4	Ready	Ready	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Toby	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 secs	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 secs	nummod
7	secs	sec	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Toby	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Toby	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Toby	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Ten minutes later his sister yells, "Two secs my backside, I'm going without you!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 yells	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sister	nmod:poss
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yells	nsubj
6	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yells	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 secs	punct
9	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 secs	nummod
10	secs	sec	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yells	obj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 backside	nmod:poss
12	backside	backside	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 secs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 yells	ccomp
17	without	without	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 going	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present	Ready's sister	Two secs my backside				late property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	Ready's sister = sister					without you	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: What's her point?

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	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 point	nmod:poss
4	point	point	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	sister's point						tree rules
2	point		sister						nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She wants him to take longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She	him = he					tree rules
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Two seconds really is ten minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 minutes	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 minutes	cop
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seconds	nmod

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

Option 3

She thinks seconds are longer than minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 longer	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 longer	cop
5	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 thinks	ccomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 minutes	case
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	seconds				minute	long property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two secs was a promise he didn't keep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 secs	nummod
2	secs	sec	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 promise	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 keep	advmod
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Two secs	a promise					tree rules
2	not keep	past · do-support	he	a promise not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

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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