Exam question 2 · What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons
It is given that "ponedilok" denotes the day following "nedilya". Determine which day of the week is thereby designated.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ponedilok, day, you · What happens: give, denote, follow, determine, designate · To what, where: It, nedilya
This is exam question 2 of lesson 25 «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» of the Ukrainian street 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
Sentence 1: It is given that "ponedilok" denotes the day following "nedilya".
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 | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 ponedilok | det |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ponedilok | punct |
| 6 | ponedilok | ponedilok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 denotes | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ponedilok | punct |
| 8 | denotes | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 denotes | obj |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 day | acl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 nedilya | punct |
| 13 | nedilya | nedilya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 following | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 nedilya | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | denote | present | that ponedilok | day | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | the day not said here | nedilya | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nedilya=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: Determine which day of the week is thereby designated.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 designated | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 designated | aux:pass |
| 8 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 9 designated | advmod |
| 9 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Determine | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | designate | present · passive | you not said here | day | thereby property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Tuesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | 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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