Test 3 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays
Lín's granny's birthday was 3 March last year and 22 March this year. Is someone confused?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: birthday · What happens: be, confuse · To what, where: March last year, someone
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the Chinese street 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: Lín's granny's birthday was 3 March last year and 22 March this year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 granny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 granny | case |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 year | cop |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 March | nummod |
| 8 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 year | compound |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 year | amod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 22 | cc |
| 12 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 year | conj |
| 13 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 22 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 22 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 year | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Lín's granny's birthday | March last year | 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: Is someone confused?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 confused | aux:pass |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 confused | nsubj |
| 3 | confused | confuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 confused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | present · passive | someone | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Yes, she was born twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 born | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 born | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | she | twice property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
No, she just changes it for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 changes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 changes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 changes | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 changes | advmod |
| 5 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 changes | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fun | case |
| 8 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | she | it | for fun | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for fun=Co-Theme |
Option 3
Yes, Granny forgot her own birthday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 forgot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birthday | amod |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Granny | Granny's own birthday | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, she counts by the lunar calendar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 counts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 counts | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 counts | nsubj |
| 4 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 calendar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 calendar | det |
| 7 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 calendar | amod |
| 8 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | she | by the lunar calendar | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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