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Test 2 · ★ · Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and p…

Ava: "15 minutes off a day down to 15 seconds, that's like sixty times better." Check her sum.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, you · What happens: be, check, sum · To what, where: sum

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Ava: "15 minutes off a day down to 15 seconds, that's like sixty times better."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 better	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 minutes	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 minutes	punct
4	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ava	appos
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 minutes	nmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 seconds	case
11	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 seconds	nummod
12	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 down	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 better	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 better	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 times	case
17	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 better	obl:unmarked
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Ava				time	good property	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: Check her sum.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sum	nmod:poss
3	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Check	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	Ava's sum					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme
2	sum		Ava						nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Wrong: it's 4 times better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 better	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
5	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 better	obl:unmarked
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Wrong	conj

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

Option 2

Wrong: it's 900 times better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 better	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
5	900	900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 better	obl:unmarked
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Wrong	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Right: 900 seconds ÷ 15 = 60

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	4 seconds	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	900	900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 seconds	nummod
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	÷	÷	SYM	_	6 15	case
6	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 seconds	nmod
7	=	=	SYM	_	8 60	case
8	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 seconds	nmod

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

Option 4

Wrong: it's only 15 times better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 better	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 better	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 15	advmod
6	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 better	obl:unmarked
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Wrong	conj

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

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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