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Exam question 3 · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

It is given that summer in Australia and New Zealand falls between December and February. Select the response consistent with the established facts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: New Zealand, you · What happens: give, fall, select, establish · To what, where: It, Australia, response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that summer in Australia and New Zealand falls between December and February.

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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 summer	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Australia	case
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 falls	cc
9	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Zealand	flat
10	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 falls	nsubj
11	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	conj
12	between	between	ADP	_	13 December	case
13	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 falls	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 February	cc
15	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 December	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It		Australia	summer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fall	present	New Zealand				december		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Select the response consistent with the established facts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

There is no summer there at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 summer	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 is	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 is	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no summer			all; there; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

Christmas there falls in winter, as it does in every other country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 falls	advmod
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 does	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 falls	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 country	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 country	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 country	amod
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Christmas			there	winter		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	it			every other country			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Christmas there falls in summer, since the seasons are reversed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 falls	advmod
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reversed	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 reversed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seasons	det
9	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reversed	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reversed	aux:pass
11	reversed	reverse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 falls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Christmas			there	summer		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reverse	present · passive		the seasons					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The seasons there are the same as in the UK

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seasons	det
2	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 same	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 UK	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 UK	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 UK	det
10	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the seasons					as the UK; same 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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