Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / World / Trick questions that catch quick think… / e3

Exam question 3 · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers

A patient is directed to take three pills, the first immediately and each subsequent pill thirty minutes after the preceding one. Compute the time elapsed until the final pill has been taken.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: direct, take, precede, elapse · To what, where: patient, three pills, time, final pill

This is exam question 3 of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 patient is directed to take three pills, the first immediately and each subsequent pill thirty minutes after the preceding one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 patient	det
2	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 directed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 directed	aux:pass
4	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 directed	xcomp
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pills	nummod
8	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 first	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 first	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 pills	acl
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	11 first	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pill	cc
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 pill	det
15	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pill	amod
16	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pills	appos
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 minutes	nummod
18	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pill	nmod:unmarked
19	after	after	ADP	_	22 one	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 minutes	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 directed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	direct	present · passive		a patient					tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		three pills					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Theme
3	precede	gerund							vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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: Compute the time elapsed until the final pill has been taken.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compute	compute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compute	appos
4	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 taken	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pill	det
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pill	amod
8	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	nsubj:pass
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 taken	aux:pass
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 elapsed	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Compute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elapse	participle		the time not said here					tree rules
2	take	present · perfect · passive		the final pill					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One hour and thirty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hour	nummod
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 minutes	cc
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hour	conj

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

Option 2

Two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hour	nummod
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Thirty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/e3/