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Test 8 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags

Lexi says, "The dentist made the clock slow, it's giving broken clock." What's really true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lexi, dentist · What happens: say, make, give, break, be · To what, where: clock, broken clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Lexi says, "The dentist made the clock slow, it's giving broken clock."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lexi	Lexi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dentist	det
6	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clock	det
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 giving	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 giving	aux
14	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 clock	amod
16	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 giving	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lexi						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past	the dentist	the clock				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clock=Product
3	give in a quote	present · progressive	dentist	broken clock					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme
4	break in a quote	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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's really true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

The dentist really slowed the clock down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dentist	det
2	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slowed	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 slowed	advmod
4	slowed	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clock	det
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slowed	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	4 slowed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	past	the dentist	the clock					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clock=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The clock was fine; worry made the wait feel long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worry	amod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct
6	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wait	det
9	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the clock					fine property	tree rules
2	make	past	fine worry	the wait					tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	the wait not said here					long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

The waiting room clock runs on a different time zone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clock	det
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 room	compound
3	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clock	compound
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	nsubj
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 zone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 zone	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 zone	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 zone	compound
10	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the room clock			a different time zone			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on zone=Trajectory

Option 4

All clocks run slow near dentists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 clocks	det
2	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 run	xcomp
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 dentists	case
6	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	all clocks			dentists		slow property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near dentist=Trajectory

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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