Test 7 · The church year
The church cloth has gone green and nothing special is happening. What season is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: church cloth, nothing, season · What happens: go, happen, be
This is test 7 of lesson 26 «The church year» 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: The church cloth has gone green and nothing special is happening.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cloth | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloth | compound |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happening | cc |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 happening | nsubj |
| 9 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nothing | amod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happening | aux |
| 11 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | the church cloth | green property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | present · progressive | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP 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: What season is it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | season | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Advent, the time of getting ready
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Advent | appos |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 getting | mark |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 getting | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | the time not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The ordinary weeks between the big seasons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weeks | det |
| 2 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weeks | amod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 seasons | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seasons | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seasons | amod |
| 7 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weeks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Easter, the greatest festival
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 festival | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 festival | det |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 festival | amod |
| 5 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Easter | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lent, the time of saying sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lent | Lent | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lent | appos |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 saying | mark |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saying | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | gerund | the time not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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