Test 6 · ★ · Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and p…

Lily: "So Greenwich is, like, the boss of time?" Best answer?

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

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Lily: "So Greenwich is, like, the boss of time?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 boss	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 boss	punct
4	So	so	ADV	_	11 boss	advmod
5	Greenwich	Greenwich	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 boss	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boss	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boss	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 boss	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boss	det
11	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lily	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 time	case
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boss	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lily	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Lily	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Greenwich				time	like the boss	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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

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

Greenwich is 0 degrees longitude, where time zones are counted from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenwich	greenwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 longitude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 longitude	cop
3	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 degrees	nummod
4	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 longitude	compound
5	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 counted	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 counted	advmod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 zones	compound
9	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 counted	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 counted	aux:pass
11	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 longitude	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	11 counted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Greenwich	degrees longitude					tree rules
2	count	present · passive		time zones					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Greenwich has its own private time that nobody else in the world uses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenwich	Greenwich	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
5	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 uses	obj
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 uses	nsubj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 nobody	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nobody	nmod
13	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Greenwich				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	use	present	nobody	its own private time					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

Option 3

Greenwich decides what time everyone gets up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenwich	greenwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 decides	nsubj
2	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obl:unmarked
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 decides	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gets	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	Greenwich						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get up	present	everyone				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Greenwich is where the first clock was ever made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenwich	greenwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 where	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clock	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 clock	amod
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 made	advmod
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 where	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Greenwich					where property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive		the first clock			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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