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Exam question 2 · Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★

A clock occupies five seconds in striking six, the intervals between strokes being equal. Determine the time it occupies in striking twelve.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clock, intervals, you · What happens: occupy, strike, be, determine · To what, where: intervals, six, time, twelve

This is exam question 2 of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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 clock occupies five seconds in striking six, the intervals between strokes being equal.

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 occupies	nsubj
3	occupies	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seconds	nummod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 occupies	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 striking	mark
7	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 occupies	advcl
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 striking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 intervals	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 intervals	det
11	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 occupies	obl
12	between	between	ADP	_	13 strokes	case
13	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 equal	obl
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 equal	cop
15	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 intervals	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 occupies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occupy	present	a clock	the intervals			second		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	strike	gerund	a clock not said here	six					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient
3	is	gerund	the intervals not said here					between strokes; equal property	tree rules

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: Determine the time it occupies in striking twelve.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 occupies	nsubj
5	occupies	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 striking	mark
7	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 occupies	advcl
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 striking	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here				time		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	occupy	present	clock	the time not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus time=Experiencer
3	strike	gerund	clock not said here	twelve					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fourteen seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word 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 · ✓ the right answer

Eleven seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word 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

Twelve seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word 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

Ten seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	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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