Exam question 1 · Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises Eid al-Fitr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: Eid
This is exam question 1 of lesson 309 «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Eid | Eid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 characterises | obj |
| 10 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Eid | flat |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fitr | punct |
| 12 | Fitr | Fitr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Eid | flat |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | Eid | of the following statements; accurately 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A Christian festival in December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 festival | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 festival | amod |
| 3 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 December | case |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 festival | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A Jewish festival of eight nights, with a candle lit on each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 festival | det |
| 2 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 festival | amod |
| 3 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nights | case |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nights | nummod |
| 6 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 festival | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 candle | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 candle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 candle | det |
| 10 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 festival | conj |
| 11 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 candle | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 lit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | participle | a candle not said here | each | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Muslim festival that ends the month of Ramadan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 festival | det |
| 2 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 festival | amod |
| 3 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 ends | nsubj |
| 5 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 festival | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ramadan | case |
| 9 | Ramadan | Ramadan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 month | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the Muslim festival | month | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
A Hindu festival of lights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 festival | det |
| 2 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 festival | amod |
| 3 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lights | case |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 festival | nmod |
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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