Test 10 · ★★ · The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back
Nan, about her oven clock: "I just add an hour in me head, love." In July the oven says 2:00. What's the real time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, oven, real time · What happens: add, say, be · To what, where: head, 2:00 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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: Nan, about her oven clock: "I just add an hour in me head, love."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clock | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clock | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 clock | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clock | nmod:poss |
| 5 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clock | compound |
| 6 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 add | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 add | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 add | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 add | advmod |
| 11 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clock | parataxis |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 add | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 add | obl |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 add | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clock | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 clock | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | present | I | head and love | hour | in me | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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: In July the oven says 2:00.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 July | case |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oven | det |
| 4 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 2:00 | 2:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the oven | 2:00 | july | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 2:00=Topic |
Sentence 3: What's the real time?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real time | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
3:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3:00 | 3:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4:00 | 4:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1:00 | 1:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2:00 | 2:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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