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Test 8 · ★ · Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and p…

Ollie: "Atomic clock? So it's never late for school, then." About how good are the best ones?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: clock, best ones · What happens: not be, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Ollie: "Atomic clock?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 clock	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 clock	punct
4	Atomic	Atomic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clock	compound
5	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ollie	appos
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ollie	punct

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

Sentence 2: So it's never late for school, then."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 late	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 late	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 late	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 late	advmod
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 late	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 late	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 late	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 late	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	clock				then	for school; late property	tree rules

Sentence 3: About how good are the best ones?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	3 good	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 good	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They lose about a second every single day of the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 second	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 second	det
5	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl:unmarked
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	They				day; second		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They lose about one whole hour by the end of every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hour	amod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	They				by the end of every year; hour		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They lose about 15 seconds in a single day of ticking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 15	advmod
4	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 seconds	nummod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 ticking	case
11	ticking	ticking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	They				day; second		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They'd lose less than a second in millions of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 lose	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 second	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 second	det
7	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 millions	case
9	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	They	less		millions of years	second		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Eventuality

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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