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Test 10 · ★ · Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and p…

Nan: "We dialled 123 for the speaking clock, love." Mila: "The what?" What was it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: We · What happens: diall, be · To what, where: Nan, clock

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 123 «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» 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: "We dialled 123 for the speaking clock, love."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dialled	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Nan	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dialled	punct
4	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dialled	nsubj
5	dialled	diall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	123	123	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 dialled	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 clock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clock	det
9	speaking	speaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	compound
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dialled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 love	punct
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	vocative
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dialled	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dialled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diall in a quote	past	We	Nan				for the speaking clock	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: Mila: "The what?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mila	Mila	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 what	det
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Mila	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mila	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Mila	punct

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

Sentence 3: What was it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		clock					tree rules

The options

Option 1

A talking alarm clock sold in shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clock	det
2	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alarm	compound
3	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clock	compound
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 clock	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 shops	case
7	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	participle		a alarm clock not said here		shops			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A radio show about old clocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 radio	det
2	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 clocks	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clocks	amod
6	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a radio					about old clocks	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about clock=Topic

Option 3

A clock that answered questions out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clock	acl:relcl
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer out speech: assert	past	a clock	questions				loud, out property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A phone number where a voice said the exact time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 number	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 number	compound
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 said	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voice	det
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 number	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a voice				time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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