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Test 4 · ★ · How long until? Counting on across the hour

Harry's friend says the bus from 8:52 to 9:17 takes "half an hour". What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, bus · What happens: say, take, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Harry's friend says the bus from 8:52 to 9:17 takes "half an hour".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Harry	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bus	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 8:52	case
8	8:52	8:52	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 bus	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 9:17	case
10	9:17	9:17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 8:52	nmod
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hour	punct
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 hour	det:predet
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hour	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Harry's friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	present	the bus from 8:52 to 9:17				hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It takes exactly half an hour

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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 half	advmod
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 hour	det:predet
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It				hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It takes 25 minutes, 5 short of half an hour

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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 5	punct
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	appos
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 takes	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 hour	case
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 hour	det:predet
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It				minute	short property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It takes 17 minutes

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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It				minute		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It takes 35 minutes

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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It				minute		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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