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Test 5 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

A girl in Scotland is told to be home by dusk in both June and December. Why must she come home earlier in December?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, be, come · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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 girl in Scotland is told to be home by dusk in both June and December.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Scotland	case
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 home	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 home	cop
9	home	home	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 dusk	case
11	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 June	case
13	both	both	CCONJ	_	14 June	cc:preconj
14	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dusk	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 December	cc
16	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 June	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		a girl in Scotland			dusk		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive						home 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.

Sentence 2: Why must she come home earlier in December?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 come	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 December	case
8	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	must	girl				december	early, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The clocks stop in December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clocks	det
2	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 December	case
5	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the clocks				december		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Dusk always comes at 5 o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 o'clock	case
5	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 o'clock	nummod
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Dusk			5 o'clock		always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at o'clock=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sun sets much earlier in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sets	nsubj
3	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 earlier	advmod
5	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sets	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	the sun				winter	early property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Her parents are much stricter in the winter months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stricter	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stricter	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 stricter	advmod
5	stricter	strict	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 months	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 months	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 months	compound
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stricter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her parents				month	strict property	tree rules

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