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Test 8 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers

The nurse: "First one now, second at half past, third at the hour. Done in an hour, clever clogs." With 4 pills, one every half hour, starting now, how long until they're gone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pills · What happens: do, start, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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: The nurse: "First one now, second at half past, third at the hour.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 nurse	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
5	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 half	nsubj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 one	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
9	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 half	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 half	case
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 nurse	conj
12	past	past	ADV	_	11 half	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hour	punct
14	third	third	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 hour	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 hour	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hour	det
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 half	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nurse	punct

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

Sentence 2: Done in an hour, clever clogs."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hour	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Done	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clogs	punct
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clogs	amod
7	clogs	clog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hour	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Done	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle					hour		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: With 4 pills, one every half hour, starting now, how long until they're gone?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 pills	case
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pills	nummod
3	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 starting	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hour	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hour	nummod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hour	det
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 hour	compound
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pills	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pills	punct
10	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 starting	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 starting	advmod
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 gone	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gone	nsubj
17	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	cop
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 long	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 starting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund					now	with 4 pills; long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with pill=Subeventuality
2	is	present	pills = pill					go property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

1 hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit 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 2

2 hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit 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

1 hour 30 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 hour	nummod
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 minutes	compound
3	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

2 hours 30 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hours	nmod:unmarked

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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