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Test 12 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags

A cartoon says a magic clock runs faster when you're happy. What is true in real life?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, magic clock, you · What happens: say, run, be · To what, where: real life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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: A cartoon says a magic clock runs faster when you're happy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clock	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clock	amod
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	nsubj
7	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 runs	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 happy	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 happy	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 happy	cop
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 runs	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	run	present	a magic clock					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	you					happy property	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: What is true in real life?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				real life		true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Clocks speed up whenever music plays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 speed	nsubj
2	speed	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 speed	compound:prt
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 speed	advmod
5	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plays	compound
6	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 whenever	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed up	present	Clocks					whenever property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Clocks keep the same speed; only our feeling of time changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 speed	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speed	amod
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 feeling	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 feeling	advmod
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feeling	nmod:poss
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 changes	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changes	compound
12	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feeling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Clocks	the same speed					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sad people make clocks run backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 make	xcomp
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sad people	clocks					tree rules
2	run	participle	clocks not said here					backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Happy people make clocks run faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Happy people	clocks					tree rules
2	run	infinitive	clocks not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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