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Test 3 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and…

Mia: "A Greek court with a water clock, that's like debate club, innit." What's the same?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that · What happens: be

This is test 3 of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» 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: Mia: "A Greek court with a water clock, that's like debate club, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 court	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 court	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 court	det
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 court	amod
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mia	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 clock	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clock	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	compound
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 court	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 club	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 club	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 club	cop
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 club	case
15	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 club	compound
16	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 court	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 club	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 club	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 club	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that					like debate club and innit	tree rules

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 the same?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 same	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Each speaker gets a fair, equal amount of time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 amount	det
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 amount	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fair	punct
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 amount	amod
8	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 amount	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	each speaker	a fair equal amount of time					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus
2	amount			time					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Each speaker has to drink the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drink	mark
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	each speaker						tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive	each speaker not said here	the water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

Speakers may only talk while it is raining outside the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 raining	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 raining	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 raining	aux
8	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 talk	advcl
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	may	Speakers						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rain	present · progressive	it					outside the court	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4

The loudest speaker gets the most time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 speaker	det
2	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 speaker	amod
3	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 time	advmod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the loudest speaker				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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