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Test 3 · ★★ · "Five more minutes" and other waiting games

Jake, fidgeting in the waiting room: "How long's patient?" What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, best answer · What happens: fidget, be · To what, where: long patient, waiting room

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Jake, fidgeting in the waiting room: "How long's patient?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fidgeting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jake	punct
3	fidgeting	fidget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 room	compound
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fidgeting	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 patient	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 patient	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 patient	amod
12	's	's	PART	_	11 long	case
13	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fidgeting	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 patient	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 patient	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fidget	gerund	Jake	long patient		the waiting room			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Patient means until the doctor goes home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Patient						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present	the doctor					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Patient means waiting calmly, not an amount of time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	3 waiting	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 amount	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 amount	advmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 amount	det
8	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 amount	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Patient						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	gerund	Patient not said here	a amount of time				calmly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	amount			time					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Patient means one hour at the doctor's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hour	nummod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 doctor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl
8	's	's	PART	_	7 doctor	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Patient			the doctor	hour		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Patient means exactly 10 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 10	advmod
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Patient				minute		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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