Exam question 3 · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the date written 3/4 in the United Kingdom.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts, date · What happens: select, establish, concern, write · To what, where: response, date, 3/4

This is exam question 3 of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 date	det
11	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 date	acl
13	3/4	3/4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 written	obl:unmarked
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 Kingdom	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Kingdom	det
16	United	United	PROPN	_	17 Kingdom	flat
17	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 3/4	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the date		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus date=Experiencer
4	write	participle	the date not said here	3/4 in the United Kingdom		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It signifies the third of April

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 third	det
4	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 April	case
6	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 third	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	the third of April					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot third=Theme

Option 2

It signifies the fourth of March

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fourth	det
4	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 March	case
6	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fourth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	the fourth of March					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fourth=Theme

Option 3

It signifies the third quarter of the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 quarter	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 quarter	amod
5	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quarter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	the third quarter of the year					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quarter=Theme

Option 4

It signifies a fraction of a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fraction	det
4	fraction	fraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fraction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	a fraction of a day					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fraction=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/e3/