Test 11 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world
Puzzle: postpone means move later and prepone means move earlier. If a match is postponed from Friday by two days and then preponed by one day, when is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Puzzle, prepone · What happens: mean, move, postpone, prepon, be · To what, where: match · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language 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: Puzzle: postpone means move later and prepone means move earlier.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Puzzle | punct |
| 3 | postpone | postpone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Puzzle | conj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 move | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 means | cc |
| 8 | prepone | prepone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | ccomp |
| 11 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 move | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Puzzle and postpone | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | move not said to happen | infinitive | Puzzle and postpone not said here | late property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | prepone | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | move | infinitive | early property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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.
Sentence 2: If a match is postponed from Friday by two days and then preponed by one day, when is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 postponed | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 match | det |
| 3 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 postponed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 postponed | aux:pass |
| 5 | postponed | postpone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 is | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Friday | case |
| 7 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 postponed | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 postponed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 preponed | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 preponed | advmod |
| 13 | preponed | prepon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 postponed | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 preponed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 postponed | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 is | advmod |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 is | expl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | postpone a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a match | day; friday | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | prepon | participle | then; day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | present | match | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
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.
Option 4
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.
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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