Test 8 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature
Three pupils time the same toy car run: 4.1, 4.3 and 4.2 seconds. What is the best value to report?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best value · What happens: be, report
This is test 8 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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: Three pupils time the same toy car run: 4.1, 4.3 and 4.2 seconds.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pupils | nummod |
| 2 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 run | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 run | amod |
| 6 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 car | compound |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | compound |
| 8 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 4.1 | punct |
| 10 | 4.1 | 4.1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 run | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 4.3 | punct |
| 12 | 4.3 | 4.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 10 4.1 | flat |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seconds | cc |
| 14 | 4.2 | 4.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 seconds | nummod |
| 15 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 4.1 | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What is the best value to report?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 value | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 value | amod |
| 5 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 report | mark |
| 7 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 value | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best value | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | report | to-infinitive | the best value not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only the slowest, 4.3 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 slowest | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slowest | det |
| 3 | slowest | slow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slowest | punct |
| 5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 seconds | nummod |
| 6 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slowest | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only the fastest, 4.1 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 fastest | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fastest | det |
| 3 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastest | punct |
| 5 | 4.1 | 4.1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 seconds | nummod |
| 6 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fastest | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The average, about 4.2 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 average | det |
| 2 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seconds | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 4.2 | advmod |
| 5 | 4.2 | 4.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 seconds | nummod |
| 6 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 average | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The total, 12.6 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seconds | det |
| 2 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seconds | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 total | punct |
| 4 | 12.6 | 12.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 seconds | nummod |
| 5 | 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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