Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many fai…

Dev: "Eid's fixin' to be in summer again, it's ALWAYS summer." What's the catch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fixin, catch · What happens: be · To what, where: summer

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 102 «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» of the religion ethics 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: Dev: "Eid's fixin' to be in summer again, it's ALWAYS summer."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 fixin	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fixin	punct
4	Eid	Eid	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fixin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Eid	case
6	fixin	fixin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dev	appos
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fixin	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	11 summer	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 summer	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixin	parataxis
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 summer	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 summer	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 summer	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 summer	cop
16	ALWAYS	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 summer	advmod
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dev	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 summer	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 summer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	to-infinitive					again	in summer	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	fixin	summer				always property	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: What's the catch?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 catch	det
4	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the catch						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Eid moves about eleven days earlier each year, so over years it passes through every season

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eid	Eid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 eleven	advmod
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 earlier	obl:unmarked
6	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 moves	advmod
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moves	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passes	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 passes	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passes	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 passes	nsubj
14	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 moves	conj
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 season	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 season	det
17	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move about	present	Eid				year	early property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present	it				season; year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Eid only happens once every eleven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eid	Eid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 happens	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 years	det
6	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Eid				year	once property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Eid is always on New Year's Day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eid	Eid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Day	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Day	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 Day	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 Day	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Year	compound
6	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Day	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Year	case
8	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Eid				on New Year's Day	always property	tree rules

Option 4

Eid really is always in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eid	Eid	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 summer	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eid	nmod

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

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