Test 6 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and…
Theo's mum: "Hard-boiled, so two turns of the egg timer, yeah?" Each turn is 3 minutes. How long do the eggs boil?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turn · What happens: boil, be, do · To what, where: two turns, 3 minutes, eggs boil
This is test 6 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: Theo's mum: "Hard-boiled, so two turns of the egg timer, yeah?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Theo | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 boiled | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 boiled | punct |
| 6 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boiled | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hard | punct |
| 8 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mum | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turns | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 turns | advmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 turns | nummod |
| 12 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 boiled | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 timer | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 timer | det |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 timer | compound |
| 16 | timer | timer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yeah | punct |
| 18 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 boiled | discourse |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 boiled | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil in a quote | participle | two turns of the egg timer | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent turn=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: Each turn is 3 minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 turn | det |
| 2 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 minutes | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 minutes | cop |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 minutes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | each turn | 3 minutes | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How long do the eggs boil?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boil | det |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boil | compound |
| 6 | boil | boil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the eggs boil | long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boil=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
6 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
3 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | 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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