Exam question 3 · Day and night, shadows and sundials

Given that British Summer Time is in force, ascertain the time indicated by a watch when a sundial indicates one o'clock in the afternoon.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, British Summer Time, sundial · What happens: give, be, ascertain, indicate · To what, where: force, time, one o'clock

This is exam question 3 of lesson 118 «Day and night, shadows and sundials» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ascertain	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 force	mark
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Time	amod
4	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Time	compound
5	Time	Time	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 force	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 force	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 force	case
8	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Given	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ascertain	punct
10	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascertain	obj
13	indicated	indicate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 time	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 watch	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 watch	det
16	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 indicated	obl
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 indicates	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sundial	det
19	sundial	sundial	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 indicates	nsubj
20	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ascertain	advcl
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 o'clock	nummod
22	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 indicates	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 afternoon	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 afternoon	det
25	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 indicates	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle	you not said here					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	British Summer Time		force			tree rules
3	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			time		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	indicate	participle		the time not said here			by a watch	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
5	indicate	present	a sundial	one o'clock		afternoon		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot o'clock=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One o'clock in the afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 afternoon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 afternoon	det
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two o'clock in the afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 afternoon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 afternoon	det
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	nmod

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

Option 3

Three o'clock in the afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 afternoon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 afternoon	det
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	nmod

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

Option 4

Twelve o'clock noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noon	compound
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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