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 |
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