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How many seconds faster than the teaser was Kwesi today? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, boy, last week, teaser · **What happens:** run, tease, take, be · **To what, where:** 60 metres, boy, 12 This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Kwesi ran 60 metres in 11 seconds. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t9:1 # text = ★★★ Kwesi ran 60 metres in 11 seconds. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Kwesi Kwesi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | ★ ★ Kwesi | 60 metres | | | second | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory | 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:* The boy who teased him took 13 seconds, and last week Kwesi took 12. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t9:2 # text = The boy who teased him took 13 seconds, and last week Kwesi took 12. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 teased tease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 Kwesi Kwesi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | past | the boy | boy | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | the boy | | | | second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | past | last week | 12 | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12=Theme | *Sentence 3:* How many seconds faster than the teaser was Kwesi today? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t9:3 # text = How many seconds faster than the teaser was Kwesi today? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 teaser teaser NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 Kwesi Kwesi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the teaser | | | | | than Kwesi | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 13 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t9:o1:1 # text = 13 1 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t9:o2:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t9:o3:1 # text = 1 1 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 24 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t9:o4:1 # text = 24 1 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 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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