Test 6 · ★ · Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates

A classmate from Vietnam tells you about Tết, the Lunar New Year. What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmate, best reply · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A classmate from Vietnam tells you about Tết, the Lunar New Year.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 classmate	det
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Vietnam	case
4	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 classmate	nmod
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tells	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 Tết	case
8	Tết	Tết	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Year	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Year	det
11	Lunar	Lunar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Year	compound
12	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Year	compound
13	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tết	appos
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a classmate from Vietnam		you			about Tết	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about tết=Topic

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: What is the best reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

«That sounds interesting! What do you eat?»

Sentence 1: «That sounds interesting!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 sounds	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sounds	nsubj
3	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sounds	xcomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound in a quote	present	That					interesting property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 2: What do you eat?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 eat	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · do-support	you						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

«Nobody wants to hear about that.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct
2	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 hear	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here					about that	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus

Option 3

«New Year is only on 1 January.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 January	punct
2	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Year	compound
3	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 January	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 January	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 January	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 January	case
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 January	nummod
8	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 January	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 January	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	New Year					on 1 January	tree rules

Option 4

«That's not a real new year, the real one is in January.»

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 year	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 year	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 year	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 January	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 January	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 January	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 January	case
15	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 year	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	That	a real new year and January					tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the real one					in January	tree rules

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