Test 4 · ★★★ · Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together
Mia: "I scrolled for 5 mins and it's been 45?! How, though?" Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, it · What happens: scroll, be · To what, where: 45
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: Mia: "I scrolled for 5 mins and it's been 45?!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scrolled | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 scrolled | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 scrolled | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 scrolled | nsubj |
| 5 | scrolled | scroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 mins | case |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 mins | nummod |
| 8 | mins | minute | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 5 scrolled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 45 | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 45 | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 45 | cop |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 45 | cop |
| 13 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 scrolled | obl |
| 14 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 5 scrolled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scroll in a quote | past | Mia | minute | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | it | 45 | 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: How, though?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 though | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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
Time really does go faster on a phone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 phone | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 phone | det |
| 8 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · do-support | a phone | time | fast property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on phone=Location |
Option 2
She must have fallen asleep for 40 minutes without noticing it at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fallen | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 7 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fallen | obl |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 noticing | mark |
| 10 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fallen | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noticing | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 noticing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | must · perfect | She | minute | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | notice | gerund | She not said here | it | all | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3
Her phone's clock is 40 minutes fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 phone | nmod:poss |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clock | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 phone | case |
| 4 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 minutes | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 minutes | cop |
| 6 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 minutes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Her phone's clock | 40 minutes | fast property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Apps keep you going with autoplay and endless feeds; set a timer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 keep | obj |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keep | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 autoplay | case |
| 6 | autoplay | autoplay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feeds | cc |
| 8 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feeds | amod |
| 9 | feeds | feed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 autoplay | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 keep | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 timer | det |
| 13 | timer | timer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Apps | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | you not said here | with autoplay and endless feeds | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with autoplay=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | Apps not said here | a timer | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient timer=Result |
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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