Exam question 3 · How long until? Counting on across the hour
A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advertisements preceding a film of two hours and five minutes. State the time of its conclusion.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cinema performance, advertisements, State · What happens: commence, precede, film, conclude · To what, where: 6:40, film, two hours
This is exam question 3 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: A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advertisements preceding a film of two hours and five minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 performance | det |
| 2 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 performance | compound |
| 3 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 commences | nsubj |
| 4 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 6:40 | case |
| 6 | 6:40 | 6:40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 commences | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 minutes | case |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 commences | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 advertisements | case |
| 11 | advertisements | advertisement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 minutes | nmod |
| 12 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 advertisements | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 film | det |
| 14 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 preceding | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hours | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hours | nummod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 film | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 minutes | cc |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 minutes | nummod |
| 20 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hours | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 commences | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | present | a cinema performance | 6:40 | minute | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | precede | gerund | advertisements not said here | a film of two hours and five minutes | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme film=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | film | two hours and five minutes | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: State the time of its conclusion.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 conclusion | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 conclusion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | State | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
9:25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:25 | 9:25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8:45 | 8:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8:05
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8:05 | 8:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
9:05
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:05 | 9:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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