Test 6 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…
Noa: "Shabbat starts Friday at sunset, 7:45 pm, and ends after dark on Saturday." About how long is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Shabbat · What happens: start, end, be · To what, where: Noa, dark
This is test 6 of lesson 117 «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» 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: Noa: "Shabbat starts Friday at sunset, 7:45 pm, and ends after dark on Saturday."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noa | Noa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 starts | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 starts | punct |
| 4 | Shabbat | Shabbat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | nsubj |
| 5 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Noa | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sunset | case |
| 8 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 7:45 | punct |
| 10 | 7:45 | 7:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 sunset | appos |
| 11 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 7:45 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ends | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ends | cc |
| 14 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 starts | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 dark | case |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ends | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Saturday | case |
| 18 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ends | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noa | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noa | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start in a quote | present | Shabbat | Noa not said here | friday; sunset | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noa=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | end in a quote | present | Shabbat not said here | after dark; saturday | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: About how long is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 long | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | dark | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 12 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 12 | advmod |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 48 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 48 | advmod |
| 2 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 25 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 25 | advmod |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 7 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 7 | advmod |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | 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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