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When must they arrive? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Pittsburgh aunt, they · **What happens:** say, be, arrive · **To what, where:** quarter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 102 «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt says, "Yinz gotta be there at quarter till three." ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t9:1 # text = Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt says, "Yinz gotta be there at quarter till three." 1 Tyler Tyler PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Yinz Yinz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 9 gotta gotta PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advcl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 till till ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tyler's Pittsburgh aunt *not said here* | | | quarter till three | | there *property* | tree rules | 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 must they arrive? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t9:2 # text = When must they arrive? 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 arrive arrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | must | they | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 2:15 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t9:o1:1 # text = 2:15 1 2:15 2:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 3:45 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t9:o2:1 # text = 3:45 1 3:45 3:45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 3:15 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t9:o3:1 # text = 3:15 1 3:15 3:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 2:45 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t9:o4:1 # text = 2:45 1 2:45 2:45 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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