Test 10 · Divorce and two homes
★★★ Frida spends Christmas Day at Mum's and Boxing Day at Dad's. Next year they swap the two days round. Where is she on Christmas Day next year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Mum · What happens: spend, swap, be · To what, where: Christmas Day
This is test 10 of lesson 516 «Divorce and two homes» 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: ★★★ Frida spends Christmas Day at Mum's and Boxing Day at Dad's.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spends | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Frida | case |
| 4 | Frida | Frida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Day | compound |
| 7 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spends | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Mum | case |
| 9 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spends | obl |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Mum | case |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Boxing | cc |
| 12 | Boxing | Boxing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mum | conj |
| 13 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Boxing | flat |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Dad | case |
| 15 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spends | obl |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Dad | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | ★ ★ Frida | Christmas Day | at Mum and Boxing; at Dad | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Asset |
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: Next year they swap the two days round.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 year | amod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swap | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swap | nsubj |
| 4 | swap | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 days | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swap | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 swap | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | present | Mum | day; year | round property | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: Where is she on Christmas Day next year?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 5 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Day | compound |
| 6 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 year | compound |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ | year | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
At Gran's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Gran | case |
| 2 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Gran | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
At both at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 both | case |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 both | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
At Dad's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Dad | case |
| 2 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Dad | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
At Mum's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Mum | case |
| 2 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Mum | case |
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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