Test 9 · ★★ · "Five more minutes" and other waiting games
Esme rolls her eyes: "Classic, Mum said 10 and it's been 25." How much extra time was that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Esme, Mum, it · What happens: roll, say, be · To what, where: eyes, 25, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Esme rolls her eyes: "Classic, Mum said 10 and it's been 25."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esme | Esme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rolls | nsubj |
| 2 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rolls | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Classic | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Classic | punct |
| 7 | Classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rolls | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Classic | conj |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 said | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 25 | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 25 | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 25 | cop |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 25 | cop |
| 16 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 10 | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Classic | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 rolls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present | Esme | Esme's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | it | 25 | tree rules |
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 much extra time was that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 that | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
15 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | 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
35 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 35 | 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 3
25 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | 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
2 and a half minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 minutes | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 minutes | compound |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 2 | conj |
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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