Exam question 3 · Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together
A flight departs London at 10:00 London time, its duration being three hours; Kyiv is two hours ahead of London. Ascertain the local time of arrival in Kyiv.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flight, duration, Kyiv, you · What happens: depart, be, ascertain · To what, where: London, three hours
This is exam question 3 of lesson 130 «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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 flight departs London at 10:00 London time, its duration being three hours; Kyiv is two hours ahead of London.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flight | det |
| 2 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 departs | nsubj |
| 3 | departs | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 departs | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | 10:00 | 10:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 time | nummod |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 departs | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hours | punct |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 duration | nmod:poss |
| 11 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hours | nsubj |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hours | cop |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hours | nummod |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 departs | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 ahead | punct |
| 16 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ahead | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ahead | cop |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hours | nummod |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ahead | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 3 departs | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 London | case |
| 22 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ahead | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 departs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | present | a flight | London | time | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme london=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | gerund | flight's duration | three hours | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Kyiv | hour | of London; ahead 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: Ascertain the local time of arrival in Kyiv.
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 | 4 time | det |
| 3 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 arrival | case |
| 6 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Kyiv | case |
| 8 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 arrival | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | time | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
17:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17:00 | 17:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
15:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15:00 | 15:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
11:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11:00 | 11:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
13:00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13:00 | 13:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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