Exam question 2 · How long since? Counting back
Whereas a person retired at 9:45 pm and awoke at 7:15 am, ascertain the aggregate duration of sleep.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: retire, awake, ascertain · To what, where: person, 9:45, 7:15, aggregate duration
This is exam question 2 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 3 person | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ascertain | obl |
| 4 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 9:45 | case |
| 6 | 9:45 | 9:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 retired | obl |
| 7 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 9:45 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 awoke | cc |
| 9 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 retired | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 7:15 | case |
| 11 | 7:15 | 7:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 awoke | obl |
| 12 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 7:15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 person | punct |
| 14 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 duration | det |
| 16 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 duration | compound |
| 17 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ascertain | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | case |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 duration | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | participle | a person not said here | 9:45 pm | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | 7:15 am | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7:15=Location | |||||
| 3 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the aggregate duration of sleep | whereas a person | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic |
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
Eight hours and thirty minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 minutes | cc |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hours | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two hours and thirty minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 minutes | cc |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hours | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nine hours and thirty minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 minutes | cc |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hours | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ten hours and thirty minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 minutes | cc |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hours | conj |
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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