Test 13 · ★ · Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch,…

my cousin says in Australia "they have Christmas on the beach cos it's always summer". what's the true bit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, they · What happens: say, have, co, be · To what, where: Australia, Christmas, beach, summer, true bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 330 «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals» 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	in	in	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cos	ccomp
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 beach	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beach	det
12	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obl
13	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 summer	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 summer	cop
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 summer	advmod
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cos	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 summer	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 bit	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bit	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bit	det
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bit	amod
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin		Australia		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in australia=Manner
2	have in a quote	present	they	Christmas	the beach		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Patient
3	co in a quote	present	my cousin not said here				tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	cousin	summer		always property	tree rules
5	is a	present		the true bit			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

They don't have Christmas there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	They	Christmas		there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Patient

Option 2

Christmas is in winter there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 winter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 winter	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 winter	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 winter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Christmas			there		in winter	tree rules

Option 3

It's summer there all year round

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	4 there	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl:unmarked
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl:unmarked
7	round	round	ADV	_	4 there	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				summer; year	round, there property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Christmas is in summer there because the seasons are opposite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 there	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 there	obl:unmarked
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 opposite	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seasons	det
8	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 opposite	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 opposite	cop
10	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 there	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Christmas				summer	there property	tree rules
2	is	present	the seasons					opposite property	tree rules

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