Exam question 2 · How long until? Counting on across the hour

Whereas a flight departs at 10:15, passengers are required at the airport two hours prior, and the drive occupies forty-five minutes, ascertain the latest time of departure from home.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drive · What happens: depart, require, occupy, ascertain · To what, where: 10:15, passengers, airport

This is exam question 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	3 flight	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flight	det
3	flight	flight	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 10:15	case
6	10:15	10:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 departs	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 required	punct
8	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 required	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 required	aux:pass
10	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 departs	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 airport	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 airport	det
13	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 required	obl
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hours	nummod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 prior	obl:unmarked
16	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 required	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 occupies	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 occupies	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drive	det
20	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 occupies	nsubj
21	occupies	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 departs	parataxis
22	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 five	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 forty	punct
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 minutes	nummod
25	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 occupies	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ascertain	punct
27	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 occupies	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	latest	late	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ascertain	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 departure	case
32	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 time	nmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 home	case
34	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 departure	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 departs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depart	present			10:15		whereas a flight	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	require	present · passive		passengers	the airport		prior property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
3	occupy	present	the drive			minute		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	ascertain	infinitive	the drive not said here			time		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

8:30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8:30	8:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

7:15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	7:15	7:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

7:30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	7:30	7:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

8:15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8:15	8:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	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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