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Test 2 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

A boy in Melbourne tells his pen pal in London that he will spend Christmas at the beach. Why is that normal for him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: tell, spend, be · To what, where: pen pal, London, Christmas, beach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Melbourne tells his pen pal in London that he will spend Christmas at the beach.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pal	nmod:poss
7	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pal	compound
8	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 London	case
10	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 spend	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spend	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 spend	aux
14	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tells	xcomp
15	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spend	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 beach	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beach	det
18	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spend	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a boy in Melbourne	boy's pen pal		London			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent pal=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spend not said to happen	future	boy	Christmas		the beach			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Asset

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: Why is that normal for him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 normal	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 normal	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 normal	mark
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 normal	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 normal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for boy; normal property	tree rules

The options

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

December is summer in Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 summer	dislocated
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 summer	cop
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 summer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		summer		Australia		December dislocated	tree rules

Option 2

Australians move Christmas to June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australians	Australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 move	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 June	case
5	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Australians	Christmas			june		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme

Option 3

Australian beaches are heated in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beaches	amod
2	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heated	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heated	aux:pass
4	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present · passive		Australian beaches			winter		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

It is 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	is	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

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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