Test 9 · ★★★ · Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together
Tom on 9 December: "Like, 4 weeks to my birthday on 4 Jan, innit?" Exactly how many sleeps is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, many sleeps · What happens: innit, be · To what, where: birthday
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Tom on 9 December: "Like, 4 weeks to my birthday on 4 Jan, innit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 innit | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 9 | case |
| 3 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Tom | nmod |
| 4 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 9 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 weeks | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 weeks | punct |
| 7 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 10 weeks | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Like | punct |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 weeks | nummod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tom | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 birthday | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 13 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weeks | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Jan | case |
| 15 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Jan | nummod |
| 16 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 birthday | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tom | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit in a quote | infinitive | Tom on 9 December 4 weeks to my birthday on 4 Jan | 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: Exactly how many sleeps is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 many | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sleeps | amod |
| 4 | sleeps | sleep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 it | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 it | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many sleeps | birthday | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
22
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
28
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
26
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | 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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