Test 3 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day
A boy in Toronto reads an email from his aunt in Sydney: "Party on 5/6". When is the party?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: read, be · To what, where: email, party
This is test 3 · ★★ 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 Toronto reads an email from his aunt in Sydney: "Party on 5/6".
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 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 email | det |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | obj | ||
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 aunt | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 10 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 email | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Sydney | case |
| 12 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 aunt | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Party | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Party | punct |
| 15 | Party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 5/6 | case |
| 17 | 5/6 | 5/6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Party | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Party | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | a boy in Toronto | a email | from boy's aunt in Sydney | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent email=Recipient party=Topic |
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: When is the party?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 party | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 party | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 party | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the party | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
May 6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 6 | aux |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6 May
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 6 | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
5 June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 5 | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5 May
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 5 | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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