Test 13 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

my aussie pen pal says xmas is in summer there?? that's wrong innit

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pen pal, xmas, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wrong innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pal	nmod:poss
2	aussie	aussie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pen	compound
3	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pal	compound
4	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	xmas	Xmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 summer	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 summer	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 summer	advmod
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 innit	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 innit	cop
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 innit	amod
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my pen pal				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	xmas		there	in summer	tree rules
3	is a	present	that	wrong innit			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.

The options

Option 1

It's spring there at Christmas, summer comes in 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	4 there	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl:unmarked
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Christmas	case
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 March	case
11	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			Christmas	spring	there property	tree rules
2	come	present	summer				march		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, Christmas is always in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 winter	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 winter	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 winter	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Christmas					in winter; always property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, she's joking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 joking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joking	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joking	aux
5	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	she						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's right, their summer is December to February

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 December	punct
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 summer	nmod:poss
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 December	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 December	cop
10	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 right	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 February	case
12	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 December	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	their summer	December			february		tree rules

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