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Test 3 · ★★ · Seasons and tides

An Australian pen pal says she's going to the beach on Christmas Day. Why isn't that a joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Australian pen pal, pal · What happens: say, go, not be · To what, where: beach, joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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: An Australian pen pal says she's going to the beach on Christmas Day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pal	det
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pal	amod
3	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pal	compound
4	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 beach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beach	det
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 Day	case
13	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Day	compound
14	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Australian pen pal						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive	pal			the beach	on Christmas Day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location

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: Why isn't that a joke?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 joke	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 joke	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 joke	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present		a joke					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The beach is heated for Christmas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beach	det
2	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heated	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heated	aux:pass
4	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Christmas	case
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present · passive		the beach				for Christmas	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Australia has no winter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 winter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Australia				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is summer there in December

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	is	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	in	in	ADP	_	6 December	case
6	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl

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

Option 4

Australians move Christmas to July

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australians	Australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 move	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 July	case
5	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Australians	Christmas			july		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme

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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