Exam question 2 · Why time flies and why it drags
It is given that an in-game day endures twenty real minutes. Determine the number of such days contained within two real hours.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game day, you · What happens: give, endure, determine, contain · To what, where: It, number, such days
This is exam question 2 of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» 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 an in-game day endures twenty real 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 | _ | 10 endures | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 game | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 endures | nsubj |
| 10 | endures | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 minutes | nummod |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minutes | amod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 endures | obj |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | endure | present | a game day | minute | vn exist-47.1-1 «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: Determine the number of such days contained within two real hours.
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 | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 7 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 days | acl |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 hours | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hours | amod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 contained | obl |
| 12 | . | . | 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 number of such days | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | contain | participle | such days not said here | hour | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Forty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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