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Test 12 · ★ · Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and p…

Grandad: "The pips! Six beeps, set your watch on the first one." Fix his mistake.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Six beeps, you, Grandad · What happens: set, fix, mistake · To what, where: watch, mistake

This is test 12 · ★ 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: Grandad: "The pips!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pips	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 pips	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pips	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pips	det
5	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 pips	punct

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

Sentence 2: Six beeps, set your watch on the first one."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 beeps	nummod
2	beeps	beep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 beeps	punct
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 watch	nmod:poss
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 one	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	infinitive	Six beeps	your watch				on the first one	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on one=Destination

Sentence 3: Fix his mistake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mistake	nmod:poss
3	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fix	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	Grandad's mistake					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient
2	mistake		Grandad						nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The pips have nothing to do with the hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pips	det
2	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the pips	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	the pips not said here	nothing not said here			hour		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The first pip marks the start of the hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pip	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 pip	amod
3	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	nsubj
4	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 start	det
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	the first pip	the start of the hour					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Destination
2	start			the hour					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The last pip marks the exact start of the hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pip	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pip	amod
3	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	nsubj
4	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 start	det
6	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 start	amod
7	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hour	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	the last pip	the exact start of the hour					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Destination
2	start			the hour					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The third pip marks the start of the hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pip	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 pip	amod
3	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	nsubj
4	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 start	det
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	the third pip	the start of the hour					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Destination
2	start			the hour					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

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