Test 3 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong
Toby: "100 minutes, fam!" If 3 bakers each bake one cake in 3 hours, how long do 6 bakers take to bake 6 cakes, one each?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 3 bakers, 6 bakers · What happens: bake, take · To what, where: one cake, 6 cakes
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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: Toby: "100 minutes, fam!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toby | Toby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 minutes | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 minutes | punct |
| 4 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Toby | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fam | punct |
| 7 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 minutes | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toby | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toby | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: If 3 bakers each bake one cake in 3 hours, how long do 6 bakers take to bake 6 cakes, one each?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 bakers | mark |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 bakers | nummod |
| 3 | bakers | baker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bake | nsubj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 bake | advmod |
| 5 | bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 cake | nummod |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bake | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 hours | nummod |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bake | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 take | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 bakers | nummod |
| 16 | bakers | baker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | nsubj |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bake | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bake | mark |
| 19 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | advcl |
| 20 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 cakes | nummod |
| 21 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bake | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 bake | parataxis |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | present | 3 bakers | one cake | hour | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | |||
| 2 | take | present · do-support | 6 bakers | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bake | to-infinitive | 6 bakers not said here | 6 cakes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1 and a half hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hours | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 hours | compound |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 1 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 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
12 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | 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 4 · ✓ the right answer
3 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 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.
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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