Test 11 · ★★ · "Five more minutes" and other waiting games
In a cartoon, the hero says "back in a jiffy" and returns 100 years later. What is a jiffy really meant to be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero, jiffy · What happens: say, return, be · To what, where: cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 109 «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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: In a cartoon, the hero says "back in a jiffy" and returns 100 years later.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 back | punct |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 says | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 jiffy | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 jiffy | det |
| 12 | jiffy | jiffy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 back | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 returns | cc |
| 15 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 16 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 later | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 returns | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the hero | a cartoon | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Manner | ||||
| 2 | return | present | the hero not said here | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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: What is a jiffy really meant to be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 meant | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 meant | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jiffy | det |
| 4 | jiffy | jiffy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meant | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 meant | advmod |
| 6 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 meant | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 meant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a jiffy | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | a jiffy not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Exactly 100 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 100 | advmod |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 week | nummod |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A short moment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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