Test 1 · Days, weeks and months
Zack's teacher says "close but no cigar" to his 48-week year. What does she mean?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, Zack · What happens: say, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 111 «Days, weeks and months» of the world 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: Zack's teacher says "close but no cigar" to his 48-week year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zack | Zack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Zack | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 cigar | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 cigar | det |
| 9 | cigar | cigar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cigar | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 year | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 week | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 48 | punct |
| 15 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 year | compound |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Zack's teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 does she mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | Zack | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Totally wrong; it is 100 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 wrong | advmod |
| 2 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weeks | amod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeks | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 weeks | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weeks | cop |
| 6 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 weeks | nummod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | wrong 100 weeks | tree rules |
Option 2
Right, but only in a leap year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 8 year | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 year | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 year | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 7 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 year | compound |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nearly right, but wrong; it is 52 weeks and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 2 right | advmod |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weeks | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wrong | cc |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 right | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 weeks | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 weeks | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weeks | cop |
| 9 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 weeks | nummod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 day | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weeks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | right 52 weeks and a day | tree rules |
Option 4
Exactly right, well done
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 right | advmod |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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