Exam question 3 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…
A task requiring three hours is commenced at eight o'clock in the evening. Ascertain the hour of its completion.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: task, you · What happens: require, commence, ascertain, complete · To what, where: task, eight o'clock
This is exam question 3 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
Sentence 1: A task requiring three hours is commenced at eight o'clock in the evening.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 task | det |
| 2 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | requiring | require | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 task | acl |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 requiring | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 commenced | aux:pass |
| 7 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 o'clock | case |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 o'clock | nummod |
| 10 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | gerund | a task not said here | hour | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | commence | present · passive | a task | eight o'clock | evening | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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: Ascertain the hour of its completion.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 completion | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 completion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hour | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | hour | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | complete | task | nom completion «act transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nine o'clock in the evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o'clock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Midnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Eleven o'clock in the evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o'clock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ten o'clock in the evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 o'clock | nmod |
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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