--- title: Tremaine's cornrows took Dad 50 minutes on Monday. Each school day h… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics description: Tremaine's cornrows took Dad 50 minutes on Monday. Each school day he's 10 minutes quicker. On which day does it take 20 minutes? 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On which day does it take 20 minutes? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cornrows, school day · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** Dad, it This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 515 «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Tremaine's cornrows took Dad 50 minutes on Monday. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own:t2:1 # text = Tremaine's cornrows took Dad 50 minutes on Monday. 1 Tremaine Tremaine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 cornrows cornrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Tremaine's cornrows | | Dad | | minute; monday | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dad=Destination | 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:* Each school day he's 10 minutes quicker. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own:t2:2 # text = Each school day he's 10 minutes quicker. 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 quicker quick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | each school day | | | | minute | quick *property* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* On which day does it take 20 minutes? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own:t2:3 # text = On which day does it take 20 minutes? 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 expl _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present · do-support | | it | | | day; minute | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Wednesday ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own:t2:o1:1 # text = Wednesday 1 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Tuesday ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own:t2:o2:1 # text = Tuesday 1 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Thursday ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own:t2:o3:1 # text = Thursday 1 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Friday ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own:t2:o4:1 # text = Friday 1 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 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. 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