Test 19 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

apparently a family flew to Australia for Christmas and it was like 40 degrees and they couldn't believe it. what's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, degrees · What happens: fly, be, not believe · To what, where: Australia, family

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 family	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 true	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Christmas	case
8	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 degrees	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 degrees	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 degrees	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 degrees	case
13	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 degrees	nummod
14	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Christmas	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 believe	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 believe	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 believe	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 believe	advmod
19	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flew	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 believe	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 true	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 true	cop
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a family		Australia	for Christmas and 40 degrees; apparently property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to australia=Result
2	is	past	family			like 40 degrees	tree rules
3	not believe	could	degrees = degree	family			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	present				true 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.

The options

Option 1

It's always winter at Christmas everywhere

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 winter	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 winter	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 winter	advmod
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Christmas	case
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 winter	nmod
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 winter	advmod

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

Option 2

Australia has no Christmas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 Christmas	det
4	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Australia	no Christmas					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Patient

Option 3

It was a freak heatwave only

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	5 heatwave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heatwave	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heatwave	det
4	freak	freak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heatwave	compound
5	heatwave	heatwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	5 heatwave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a freak heatwave					tree rules

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

Christmas is in summer there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 summer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 summer	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 summer	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 summer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Christmas			there		in summer	tree rules

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