Exam question 1 · How long until? Counting on across the hour
It is given that a journey commences at 2:35 and concludes at 3:10. Determine the duration of the said journey.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: journey, you · What happens: give, commence, conclude, determine, say · To what, where: It, 2:35, 3:10, duration · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 107 «How long until? Counting on across the hour» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a journey commences at 2:35 and concludes at 3:10.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 commences | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 journey | det |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commences | nsubj |
| 7 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 2:35 | case |
| 9 | 2:35 | 2:35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 commences | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 concludes | cc |
| 11 | concludes | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 commences | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 3:10 | case |
| 13 | 3:10 | 3:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 concludes | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | commence | present | a journey | 2:35 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | conclude | present | a journey not said here | 3:10 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: Determine the duration of the said journey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duration | det |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 duration | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the duration of the said journey | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twenty-five minutes precisely
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 |
| 5 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 4 minutes | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Some forty-five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 minutes | det |
| 2 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 five | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 forty | punct |
| 4 | five | five | 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 3
Seventy-five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Seventy | conj |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Thirty-five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Thirty | conj |
| 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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