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Test 11 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…

Kofi's teacher: "Late once is an accident. Late every day is a choice." What would fix Kofi's lateness?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: day · What happens: be, fix · To what, where: accident, choice, lateness

This is test 11 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: Kofi's teacher: "Late once is an accident.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kofi	case
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 accident	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 once	punct
6	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 once	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 accident	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 accident	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 accident	det
10	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 teacher	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a accident				once property	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: Late every day is a choice."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 choice	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choice	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 choice	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 choice	det
6	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 choice	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 choice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every day	a choice				late property	tree rules

Sentence 3: What would fix Kofi's lateness?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fix	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fix	aux
3	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lateness	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kofi	case
6	lateness	lateness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fix	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	would		Kofi's lateness					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary lateness=Product

The options

Option 1

Asking the whole school to start half an hour later every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 school	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 school	amod
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 start	mark
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 hour	det:predet
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obj
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Asking	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		the whole school			day	late property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent school=Recipient clause=Topic
2	start not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whole school not said here				hour		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Better excuses every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 excuses	amod
2	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 excuses	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Better habits, like packing his bag the night before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 habits	amod
2	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 packing	punct
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 packing	mark
5	packing	pack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 habits	acl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bag	nmod:poss
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 packing	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 packing	obl:unmarked
10	before	before	ADV	_	9 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	gerund	Better habits not said here	his bag			night		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

Option 4

Blaming the bus every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bus	det
3	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blaming	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blaming	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund		the bus			day		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Theme

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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