Test 8 · ★★★ · Friends who get it
★★★ Niall's party is on Saturday. Bríd needs the form two days before. What is the latest day she can sign it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: party, Bríd, latest day · What happens: be, need, sign · To what, where: form
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 525 «Friends who get it» 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: ★★★ Niall's party is on Saturday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Saturday | punct |
| 4 | Niall | Niall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 party | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Niall | case |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Saturday | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Saturday | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Saturday | case |
| 9 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Niall's party | on Saturday | 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.
Sentence 2: Bríd needs the form two days before.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bríd | Bríd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 form | det |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | obj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 before | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 needs | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 needs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Bríd | the form | before property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot form=Theme |
Sentence 3: What is the latest day she can sign it?
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 day | det |
| 4 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sign | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sign | aux |
| 8 | sign | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sign | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the latest day | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sign | can | Bríd | form | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Thursday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Wednesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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