Exam question 3 · The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back

Identify the duration of the night upon which British clocks are put back by one hour in October.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, put back · To what, where: duration, British clocks

This is exam question 3 of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 put	obl
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clocks	amod
10	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux:pass
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 duration	acl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 put	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 hour	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hour	nummod
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 October	case
18	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the duration of the night					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme
2	put back	present · passive		British clocks		the duration of the night	hour; october		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon which=Destination

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

Twenty-six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 six	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Twenty-three hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 three	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-five hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Twenty-four hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj
4	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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