Test 17 · ★ · Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates

my cousin says Diwali fireworks "set a whole street on fire last year". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: say, set, be, exaggerate · To what, where: Diwali fireworks, whole street, fire, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 309 «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fireworks	compound
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
7	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 street	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 street	amod
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 fire	case
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 year	amod
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl:unmarked
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 prob	advmod
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 prob	cop
19	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
20	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin	Diwali fireworks			tree rules
2	set in a quote	infinitive		a whole street	fire	year	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme on fire=Destination
3	is a	present		prob			tree rules
4	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here			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

That Diwali has lights, like the little clay lamps people put out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Diwali	det
2	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 lamps	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lamps	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lamps	amod
9	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lamps	compound
10	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that Diwali	lights					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	put out	past	people					like the little clay lamps	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That it is a festival

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 festival	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 festival	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 festival	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 festival	det
5	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a festival					tree rules

Option 3

That people light lamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 light	nsubj
3	light	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 light	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present	that people	lamps					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The whole street; Diwali is celebrated with lamps, sweets and fireworks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 street	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 street	amod
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 celebrated	punct
5	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 celebrated	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 celebrated	aux:pass
7	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 street	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 lamps	case
9	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 celebrated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweets	punct
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lamps	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fireworks	cc
13	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lamps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	present · passive		Diwali				with lamps and sweets and fireworks	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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