Exam question 1 · "Five more minutes" and other waiting games
It is given that four persons precede an individual in a queue, each requiring approximately three minutes. Determine the anticipated waiting period.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: four persons, you · What happens: give, precede, require, determine, anticipate · To what, where: It, individual, queue, anticipated waiting period
This is exam question 1 of lesson 109 «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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 four persons precede an individual in a queue, each requiring approximately three 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 | 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 | _ | 7 precede | mark |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 persons | nummod |
| 6 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 precede | nsubj |
| 7 | precede | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 individual | det |
| 9 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 precede | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 queue | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 queue | det |
| 12 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 precede | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 each | punct |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 queue | nmod |
| 15 | requiring | require | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 each | acl |
| 16 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 18 minutes | advmod |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 minutes | nummod |
| 18 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 requiring | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | precede | infinitive | four persons | a individual | a queue each | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme individual=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | require | gerund | minute | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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 anticipated waiting period.
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 | 5 period | det |
| 3 | anticipated | anticipate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 period | amod |
| 4 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 period | compound |
| 5 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 6 | . | . | 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 anticipated waiting period | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic | ||||
| 2 | anticipate | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Twelve minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Seven minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Four minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Fifteen minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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