Test 1 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags
Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!" Clock: 4:00 to 5:10. How much is she out by?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Maya, I · What happens: swear, play, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» 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: Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swears | nsubj |
| 2 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 played | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 played | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 played | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 played | advmod |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swears | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 minutes | nummod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 played | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 swears | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 swears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | Maya | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | past | I | minute | vn performance-26.7-1 «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: Clock: 4:00 to 5:10.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 4:00 | punct |
| 3 | 4:00 | 4:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Clock | appos |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 5:10 | case |
| 5 | 5:10 | 5:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 4:00 | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Clock | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: How much is she out by?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 much | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 much | nsubj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 much | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 much | fixed |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 much | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Maya | much property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
60 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | 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
70 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70 | 70 | 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
10 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 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
50 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | 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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