Test 6 · ★★★ · Sounds wrong, but is right
Grandson: "You were so ready for 8 minutes, Grandad, you even made a tea." How long would it take to cut a log into 6 pieces at 2 minutes a cut?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: be, make, take, cut · To what, where: Grandson, tea, log, 6 pieces
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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: Grandson: "You were so ready for 8 minutes, Grandad, you even made a tea."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 ready | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ready | punct |
| 4 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ready | advmod |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grandson | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 9 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 minutes | nummod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ready | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grandad | punct |
| 12 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Grandson | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grandson | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tea | det |
| 18 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | You | minute | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | you | Grandson and Grandad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Product |
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 long would it take to cut a log into 6 pieces at 2 minutes a cut?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 take | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | expl |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 log | det |
| 9 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 pieces | nummod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 minutes | nummod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cut | det |
| 17 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 minutes | appos |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | tea | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | a log | 6 pieces | minute | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
10 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
6 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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.
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