Test 10 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…

Ella's mum sits in the car from 9:50 for a "10 sharp" meeting. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: sit · To what, where: car

This is test 10 of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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: Ella's mum sits in the car from 9:50 for a "10 sharp" meeting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ella	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	nsubj
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 9:50	case
9	9:50	9:50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 sits	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	16 meeting	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 meeting	det
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sharp	punct
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 sharp	nummod
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meeting	amod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sharp	punct
16	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Ella's mum			the car		from 9:50; for a sharp meeting	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

She's waiting for the car engine to cool down before she gets out of it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 engine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 engine	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 engine	compound
7	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cool	mark
9	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 cool	compound:prt
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 gets	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gets	nsubj
13	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 it	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	She		for the car engine	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cool down	to-infinitive	She not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get out	present	she	engine		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She wants to walk in 10 minutes late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 walk	mark
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 minutes	case
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	obl
8	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here				minute	late property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Arriving a bit early means she's never late and feels calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arriving	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Arriving	obl:unmarked
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Arriving	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 late	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 late	cop
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 late	advmod
9	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 means	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feels	cc
11	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
12	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund		a bit	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	present	Arriving			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	she		late property	tree rules
4	feel	present	Arriving not said here		calm property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

She thought the meeting was at 9:50

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meeting	det
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 9:50	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 9:50	case
7	9:50	9:50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 meeting	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She	the meeting					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meeting=Theme
2	is	past				9:50			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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