Exam question 2 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…
Given that a pupil devotes twenty minutes daily to a project over a period of fourteen days, determine the aggregate time so expended.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: give, devote, determine, expend · To what, where: project
This is exam question 2 of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 devotes | mark |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 devotes | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pupil | det |
| 4 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devotes | nsubj |
| 5 | devotes | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 determine | advcl |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 devotes | obj |
| 8 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 11 project | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 project | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 project | det |
| 11 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devotes | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 period | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 period | det |
| 14 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 project | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 period | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 determine | punct |
| 19 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | compound |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 determine | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 expended | advmod |
| 24 | expended | expend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 determine | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | devote | present | a pupil | minute | to a project over a period of fourteen days goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to project=Goal | |||
| 3 | determine | imperative | you not said here | time | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | expend | past | you not said here | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Thirty-four minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 four | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Thirty | conj |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One hundred and forty minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forty | cc |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two thousand eight hundred minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eight | compound |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Two hundred and eighty minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 eighty | cc |
| 4 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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