Test 2 · ★ · How long until? Counting on across the hour
Grace's brother, starving: "Cake in at 4:40, 35 minutes, so it's ready at 4:75, innit?" Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, Cake, you · What happens: starve in, be, innit, put · To what, where: 4:40, 4:75, brother
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Grace's brother, starving: "Cake in at 4:40, 35 minutes, so it's ready at 4:75, innit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Grace | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starving | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 starving | punct |
| 5 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cake | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cake | punct |
| 8 | Cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starving | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 starving | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 4:40 | case |
| 11 | 4:40 | 4:40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 starving | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 minutes | punct |
| 13 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 starving | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ready | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 ready | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ready | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ready | cop |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 starving | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 4:75 | case |
| 21 | 4:75 | 4:75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 ready | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 innit | punct |
| 23 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 starving | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 starving | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 starving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve in | gerund | Grace's brother | 4:40 | minute | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Cake | 4:75 | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | innit in a quote | infinitive | Grace's brother not said here | 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 him 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 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc 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 | brother | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4:75 is right on a kitchen clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4:75 | 4:75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 clock | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 clock | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clock | compound |
| 7 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 4:75 | a kitchen clock | right property | tree rules |
Option 2
5:35, because you add the 40 and the 35
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5:35 | 5:35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 add | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 add | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 add | nsubj |
| 5 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 5:35 | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 40 | det |
| 7 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 add | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 35 | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 35 | det |
| 10 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 40 | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | you | the 40 | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 40=Patient |
Option 3
5:05, because you round down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5:05 | 5:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 round | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 round | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 round | nsubj |
| 5 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 5:05 | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 round | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round down | present | you | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
5:15, because there are only 60 minutes in an hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5:15 | 5:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 are | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 are | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 minutes | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 60 | advmod |
| 7 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hour | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hour | det |
| 11 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 minutes | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 5:15 60 minutes | hour | tree rules |
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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