Test 9 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day
A boy in Florida writes his birthday, 12 July, as 7/12. His cousin in England reads it as what date?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, cousin · What happens: write, read · To what, where: birthday
This is test 9 · ★★ 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 Florida writes his birthday, 12 July, as 7/12.
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 writes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | writes | write | 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 | 7 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 writes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 12 | punct |
| 9 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 birthday | appos |
| 10 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 12 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 7/12 | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 7/12 | case |
| 13 | 7/12 | 7/12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 writes | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | a boy in Florida | boy's birthday | as 7/12 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent birthday=Result as 7/12=Attribute |
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: His cousin in England reads it as what date?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | nmod |
| 5 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reads | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 date | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 date | nsubj |
| 9 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | boy's cousin in England | birthday | as date | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as date=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
7 July
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12 December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 12 | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12 July
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 12 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
7 December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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