Test 4 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong
Ava's dad: "Twelve strikes, eleven gaps, eleven seconds." A clock strikes 3 times in 2 seconds. How long does it take to strike 9 times?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clock · What happens: strike, take · To what, where: clock
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Ava's dad: "Twelve strikes, eleven gaps, eleven seconds."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ava | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 strikes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 strikes | punct |
| 6 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 strikes | nummod |
| 7 | strikes | strike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dad | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gaps | punct |
| 9 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 gaps | nummod |
| 10 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strikes | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seconds | punct |
| 12 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 seconds | nummod |
| 13 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strikes | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dad | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dad | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: A clock strikes 3 times in 2 seconds.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clock | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | nsubj |
| 3 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 strikes | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 seconds | case |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 seconds | nummod |
| 8 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 strikes | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strikes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present | a clock | second; time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: How long does it take to strike 9 times?
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 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres 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 strike | mark |
| 7 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | xcomp |
| 8 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strike | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | clock | long property | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | strike | to-infinitive | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
9 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 seconds | nummod |
| 2 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 seconds | nummod |
| 2 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
8 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 seconds | nummod |
| 2 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4 and a half seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seconds | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 seconds | compound |
| 5 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 4 | conj |
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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