Test 10 · ★ · How long until? Counting on across the hour
Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "Sick, I can play till 7:50." What's the real end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan, real end · What happens: start, say, play, be · To what, where: 5:50, Sick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 107 «How long until? Counting on across the hour» 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: Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "Sick, I can play till 7:50."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethan | Ethan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 5:50 | case |
| 6 | 5:50 | 5:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 starts | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 hour | nummod |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | obl |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 minutes | nummod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 starts | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 starts | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sick | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sick | punct |
| 16 | Sick | Sick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 play | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 play | aux |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 21 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 7:50 | case |
| 22 | 7:50 | 7:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 play | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Ethan | 5:50 | hour; minute; time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Ethan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | play in a quote | can | Ethan | Sick | till 7:50 | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: What's the real end?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 end | amod |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real end | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
6:10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6:10 | 6:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
7:10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:10 | 7:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7:50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:50 | 7:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
7:20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:20 | 7:20 | 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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