Exam question 1 · How long since? Counting back
It is given that an animal was fed at 7:30 am and that the present time is 1:30 pm. Determine the interval elapsed.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: present time, you · What happens: give, feed, be, determine, elapse · To what, where: It, animal, 7:30, 1:30, interval
This is exam question 1 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that an animal was fed at 7:30 am and that the present time is 1:30 pm.
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fed | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fed | aux:pass |
| 8 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 7:30 | case |
| 10 | 7:30 | 7:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 fed | obl |
| 11 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 7:30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 1:30 | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 1:30 | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 1:30 | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 1:30 | cop |
| 18 | 1:30 | 1:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 given | conj |
| 19 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 1:30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feed | past · passive | a animal | 7:30 am | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the present time | 1:30 | pm nmod:unmarked | 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: Determine the interval elapsed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 interval | det |
| 3 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 interval | acl |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the interval | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic | ||||
| 2 | elapse | participle | the interval not said here | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Five hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Six hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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