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Test 10 · ★★★ · Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together

Grandad: "Time and tide wait for no man." Ava: "Who's Tide, then?" Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, Ava · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Tide

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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: Grandad: "Time and tide wait for no man."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wait	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Time	punct
4	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tide	cc
6	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Time	conj
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	present	Grandad					for no man	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Ava: "Who's Tide, then?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Tide	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Tide	punct
4	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Tide	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Tide	cop
6	Tide	Tide	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ava	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ava	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Ava	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ava	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ava	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Ava and Tide	Tide					tree rules

Sentence 3: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tide is the name of a clock in Greenwich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 clock	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Greenwich	case
9	Greenwich	Greenwich	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 clock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tide	the name				of a clock in Greenwich	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The tide is the sea coming in and going out; it won't wait, just like time

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tide	det
2	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sea	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sea	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sea	acl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 coming	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 going	cc
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 coming	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 going	compound:prt
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 wait	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wait	nsubj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wait	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 wait	advmod
15	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sea	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 time	punct
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 time	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 time	case
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tide	the sea					tree rules
2	come in	gerund	the sea not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go out	gerund	the sea not said here						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not wait	future	tide				time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Tide was a famous sailor who was always late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sailor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sailor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sailor	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sailor	amod
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 late	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 late	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 late	advmod
9	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sailor	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tide	a famous sailor					tree rules
2	is	past	a famous sailor					always, late property	tree rules

Option 4

Tide is a man who sells watches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sells	nsubj
6	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
7	watches	watch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tide	a man					tree rules
2	sell	present	a man	watches					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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