Test 12 · ★★ · "Five more minutes" and other waiting games
A Singapore aunt: "Wait, lah, 4 people in front, each 3 minutes only." How long is the wait?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: lah, wait
This is test 12 · ★★ 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: A Singapore aunt: "Wait, lah, 4 people in front, each 3 minutes only."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 aunt | det |
| 2 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 aunt | compound |
| 3 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| 6 | Wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 aunt | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lah | punct |
| 8 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wait | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 people | nummod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lah | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 minutes | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 minutes | det |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 minutes | nummod |
| 17 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 minutes | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | lah | minute | vn exist-47.1 «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: How long is the wait?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wait | det |
| 5 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wait | long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
7 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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
1 minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minute | nummod |
| 2 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
12 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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
43 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | 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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