Exam question 1 · The church year

Identify the season of the ecclesiastical year comprising the four weeks preceding the Nativity.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ecclesiastical year, four weeks · What happens: identify, comprise, precede · To what, where: Nativity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	ecclesiastical	ecclesiastical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 season	nmod
8	comprising	comprise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 year	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 weeks	det
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 weeks	nummod
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 comprising	obl:unmarked
12	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 weeks	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Nativity	det
14	Nativity	Nativity	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 preceding	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		season	vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	comprise	gerund	the ecclesiastical year not said here		week	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	precede	gerund	the four weeks not said here	the Nativity		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nativity=Co-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

Lent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lent	Lent	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Holy Week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Week	amod
2	Week	Week	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Epiphany

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Epiphany	Epiphany	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Advent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Advent	advent	NOUN	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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