Test 11 · ★ · How long until? Counting on across the hour
A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty." Put it right.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon cook, Ten, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: four sixty, Ten · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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: A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cook | compound |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ten | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ten | punct |
| 7 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sixty | nsubj |
| 8 | past | past | ADP | _ | 9 four | case |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Ten | nmod |
| 10 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 fifty | cc |
| 11 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Ten | conj |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fifty | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sixty | cop |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sixty | compound |
| 15 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 says | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Ten past four | four sixty | tree rules |
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: Put it right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | Ten | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
The options
Option 1
It is 4:60, a real time
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 4:60 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 4:60 | cop |
| 3 | 4:60 | 4:60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 4:60 | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 4:60 | tree rules |
Option 2
It is only 4:50
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 | 4 4:50 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 4:50 | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 4:50 | advmod |
| 4 | 4:50 | 4:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 4:50 | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It is 5:10 exactly
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 5:10 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 5:10 | cop |
| 3 | 5:10 | 5:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 5:10 | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 5:10 | exactly property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It is 5:00
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 5:00 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 5:00 | cop |
| 3 | 5:00 | 5:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 5:00 | tree rules |
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