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Test 6 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags

A dreich wet Sunday with nothing to do feels endless. A day at the beach flies past. Both days have how many hours?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dreich wet Sunday, day, days · What happens: do, feel, fly, have

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 dreich wet Sunday with nothing to do feels endless.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Sunday	det
2	dreich	dreich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Sunday	amod
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Sunday	amod
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 feels	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 Sunday	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl
9	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feels	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	a dreich wet Sunday with nothing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	a dreich wet Sunday with nothing					endless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: A day at the beach flies past.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 beach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	past	past	ADV	_	6 flies	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a day at the beach					past property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: Both days have how many hours?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	both days				hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

More hours on the beach day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 hours	amod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hours	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

It changes with the weather

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	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 weather	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weather	det
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It					with the weather	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

More hours on the dull day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 hours	amod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hours	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

24 hours each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hours	nmod:unmarked

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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