Test 6 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

Why are Anzac Day services held at dawn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: Day services

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Anzac	Anzac	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Day	compound
4	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 services	compound
5	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	advcl
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 services	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	hold	participle		Day services not said here			dawn		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It is cheaper than evening

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	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 evening	case
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				evening	cheap property	tree rules

Option 2

It is to see the stars

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 see	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stars	det
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					see property	tree rules

Option 3

Dawn is the only time when most people are free from work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 free	advmod
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 free	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 free	cop
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 work	case
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dawn	the only time					tree rules
2	is	present	most people			work		free property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Gallipoli landing happened in the early morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 landing	det
2	Gallipoli	Gallipoli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 landing	compound
3	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the Gallipoli landing				morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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