Exam question 4 · The church year

Whereas certain Orthodox churches observe the Nativity upon a later date, state the date in question.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: certain Orthodox churches, you · What happens: observe, state · To what, where: Nativity, date, question

This is exam question 4 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 observe	mark
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 churches	amod
3	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 churches	amod
4	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 observe	nsubj
5	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 state	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nativity	det
7	Nativity	Nativity	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 observe	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 date	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 date	det
10	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 date	amod
11	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 observe	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 observe	punct
13	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 date	det
15	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 state	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 question	case
17	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 date	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 state	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	present	certain Orthodox churches	the Nativity				upon a later date	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nativity=Topic
2	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the date		question			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent date=Topic

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

The twenty-fifth of December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fifth	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fifth	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 December	case
6	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fifth	nmod

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

Option 2

The first of January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod

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

Option 3

The sixth of January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sixth	det
2	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sixth	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The seventh of January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seventh	det
2	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seventh	nmod

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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