Test 6 · Mirrors, shadows and colours
A child stands in the same spot at 9 o'clock, at 12 o'clock and at 3 o'clock on a sunny day. When is the shadow shortest?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: same spot, shadow
This is test 6 of lesson 84 «Mirrors, shadows and colours» 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: A child stands in the same spot at 9 o'clock, at 12 o'clock and at 3 o'clock on a sunny day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spot | amod |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 o'clock | case |
| 9 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 o'clock | nummod |
| 10 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spot | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 o'clock | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 o'clock | case |
| 13 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 o'clock | nummod |
| 14 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spot | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 o'clock | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 o'clock | case |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 o'clock | nummod |
| 18 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spot | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a child | the same spot at 9 o'clock and 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=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: When is the shadow shortest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 shadow | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shadow | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shadow | det |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shortest | obl |
| 5 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shortest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the shadow | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
At 9 o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o'clock | case |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
At 12 o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o'clock | case |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It is the same all day
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 | 4 same | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 same | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | day | same property | tree rules |
Option 4
At 3 o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o'clock | case |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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