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Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★

Callum from Glasgow: "It's dreich and the clouds are thick, but the sundial in the park'll tell us the time, aye?" What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It, Callum, sundial · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: dreich, aye, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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: Callum from Glasgow: "It's dreich and the clouds are thick, but the sundial in the park'll tell us the time, aye?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thick	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Glasgow	case
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Callum	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 thick	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dreich	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dreich	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dreich	cop
8	dreich	dreich	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thick	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 clouds	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clouds	det
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dreich	conj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thick	cop
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sundial	det
17	sundial	sundial	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 park	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 park	det
20	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sundial	nmod
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thick	conj
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 aye	punct
27	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 thick	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	dreich and the clouds					tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Callum from Glasgow					thick property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the sundial in the park	aye	us		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient

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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes; sundials work in any weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 work	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sundials	sundial	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 weather	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 weather	det
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	sundials					in any weather	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in weather=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No; with no sunshine there is no shadow to read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 is	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sunshine	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sunshine	det
5	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 shadow	det
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 read	mark
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shadow	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no shadow			there		with no sunshine	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	read	to-infinitive	no shadow not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No; sundials only work at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 sundials	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sundials	sundial	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	sundials				night		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, but only if he shines a torch at the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 shines	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shines	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 shines	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 shines	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 shines	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shines	nsubj
7	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 torch	det
9	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shines	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shines	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	he	a torch		the stone			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent torch=Theme

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