Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★
Nan: "I've told you a million times, the bus goes at 8:40! It's 8:25 — no, my watch is slow, it's 8:28." How long until the bus?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, bus, watch · What happens: tell, go, be · To what, where: you, 8:40, 8:25, 8:28 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Nan: "I've told you a million times, the bus goes at 8:40!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Nan | parataxis |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 million | det |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bus | det |
| 13 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | nsubj |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 8:40 | case |
| 16 | 8:40 | 8:40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 goes | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nan | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | I | you | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | the bus | 8:40 | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at 8:40=Location |
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: It's 8:25 — no, my watch is slow, it's 8:28."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 8:25 | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 8:25 | cop |
| 3 | 8:25 | 8:25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 slow | punct |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 slow | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slow | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 watch | nmod:poss |
| 8 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slow | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 slow | cop |
| 10 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 8:25 | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 8:28 | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 8:28 | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 8:28 | cop |
| 14 | 8:28 | 8:28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 slow | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slow | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 8:25 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bus | 8:25 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my watch | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | bus | 8:28 | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How long until the bus?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 5 bus | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bus | det |
| 5 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 long | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
15 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | 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
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 3
8 minutes and 40 seconds
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 |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seconds | cc |
| 4 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 seconds | nummod |
| 5 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 minutes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A million minutes, near enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 million | det |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 minutes | punct |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 minutes | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 near | advmod |
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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