Test 6 · ★ · How long until? Counting on across the hour
What would happen if Zane's mum forgot the 20 minutes of adverts before his 6:40 film of 2 hours 5 minutes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Zane · What happens: happen, forget, film · To what, where: 2 hours
This is test 6 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 forgot | mark |
| 5 | Zane | Zane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Zane | case |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | nsubj |
| 8 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 minutes | det |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 minutes | nummod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 forgot | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 adverts | case |
| 13 | adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 minutes | nmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 film | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 film | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 6:40 | 6:40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 film | nummod |
| 17 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hours | case |
| 19 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 hours | nummod |
| 20 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 film | nmod |
| 21 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 minutes | nummod |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | forget a condition, not said to happen | past | Zane's mum | before Zane's 6:40 film of 2 hours 5 minutes; minute | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | film | Zane | 2 hours 5 minutes | nom film «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She would come at 9:05, right on time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 9:05 | case |
| 5 | 9:05 | 9:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 time | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | She | 9:05 | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 9:05=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She would come at 8:45 and wait 20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 8:45 | case |
| 5 | 8:45 | 8:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wait | cc |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 8 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wait | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | She | 8:45 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 8:45=Location | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | She not said here | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
She would come at 9:25, very late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 9:25 | case |
| 5 | 9:25 | 9:25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 very | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 late | advmod |
| 8 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | She | 9:25 | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 9:25=Location |
Option 4
She would come at 7:00, at the start
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 7:00 | case |
| 5 | 7:00 | 7:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 start | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 start | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 start | det |
| 9 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | She | 7:00 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7:00=Location |
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