Exam question 3 · Days, weeks and months

Whereas refuse is collected upon alternate Thursdays and was last collected upon the fifth, ascertain the date of the next collection within the same month.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: collect, ascertain · To what, where: date

This is exam question 3 of lesson 111 «Days, weeks and months» of the world 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	_	2 refuse	case
2	refuse	refuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	obl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 collected	aux:pass
4	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 Thursdays	case
6	alternate	alternate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Thursdays	amod
7	Thursdays	thursday	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 collected	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 collected	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 collected	aux:pass
10	last	last	ADV	_	11 collected	advmod
11	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 collected	conj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 fifth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fifth	det
14	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 collected	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ascertain	punct
16	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 collected	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 date	det
18	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ascertain	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 collection	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 collection	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 collection	amod
22	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 date	nmod
23	within	within	ADP	_	26 month	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 month	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 month	amod
26	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ascertain	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 collected	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	collect	present · passive			whereas refuse; upon alternate Thursdays	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
2	collect	past · passive			upon the fifth; last property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
3	ascertain	infinitive	the date of the next collection	month		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: 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 right answer

The nineteenth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nineteenth	det
2	nineteenth	nineteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The twelfth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 twelfth	det
2	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The twenty-sixth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sixth	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sixth	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The seventh

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

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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