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Test 4 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…

Kai: "Oi, back of the line, mate!" Ollie: "Chill, it's only one person." There are 10 kids ahead, each taking 1 minute. What did Ollie do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, mate, 10 kids, each · What happens: chill, be, take, do · To what, where: one person

This is test 4 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: Kai: "Oi, back of the line, mate!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Oi	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Oi	punct
4	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kai	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 line	punct
6	back	back	ADV	_	9 line	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 line	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 line	det
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Oi	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 line	vocative
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 line	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 line	punct

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

Sentence 2: Ollie: "Chill, it's only one person."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chill	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Chill	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Chill	punct
4	Chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 person	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 person	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 person	nummod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Chill	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Chill	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill in a quote	infinitive	Ollie						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present	mate	one person					tree rules

Sentence 3: There are 10 kids ahead, each taking 1 minute.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 kids	nummod
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 are	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 taking	nsubj
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 are	advcl
9	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 minute	nummod
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	10 kids			there		ahead property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	gerund	each				minute		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: What did Ollie do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Ollie						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He made the queue move faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queue	det
4	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	the queue				fast property	tree rules
2	move	present	the queue not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He skipped 10 minutes of waiting and made everyone else wait longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 skipped	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 waiting	case
6	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 minutes	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 skipped	conj
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 made	obj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 everyone	advmod
11	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	He				minute		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	He not said here	everyone					tree rules
3	wait	infinitive	everyone not said here					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He saved everybody some time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 saved	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	He	everybody			time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Theme

Option 4

He made no difference at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	no difference		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Product

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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