Test 10 · How long since? Counting back
Teacher: "Started at 9:20, pens down at 10:05, so you had an hour, stop whining." Was it an hour?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, you · What happens: start, pen down, have, stop, whine, be · To what, where: 9:20, 10:05, hour
This is test 10 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» 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: Teacher: "Started at 9:20, pens down at 10:05, so you had an hour, stop whining."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pens | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Started | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Started | punct |
| 4 | Started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Teacher | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 9:20 | case |
| 6 | 9:20 | 9:20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Started | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
| 8 | pens | pen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 pens | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 10:05 | case |
| 11 | 10:05 | 10:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 pens | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pens | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hour | det |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stop | punct |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | conj |
| 20 | whining | whine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stop | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pens | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start in a quote | participle | Teacher not said here | 9:20 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pen down in a quote | present | Teacher | 10:05 | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | you | hour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | whine in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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: Was it an hour?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hour | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hour | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Teacher | a hour | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, 35 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 minutes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, 1 hour 25 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 hour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 hour | nummod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hour | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, 45 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 minutes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yes, exactly an hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 hour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 hour | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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