Test 11 · Days, weeks and months
Leo counts a fortnight from Saturday 3rd and gets Friday 17th. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: count, get, be · To what, where: Saturday 3rd, Friday 17th
This is test 11 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: Leo counts a fortnight from Saturday 3rd and gets Friday 17th.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fortnight | det |
| 4 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 3rd | case |
| 6 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 3rd | compound |
| 7 | 3rd | 3rd | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 2 counts | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gets | cc |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 counts | conj |
| 10 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 17th | compound |
| 11 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 9 gets | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Leo | Saturday 3rd | fortnight | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get | present | Leo not said here | Friday 17th | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 17th=Stimulus |
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's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It should be Saturday 10th
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 | 5 10th | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 10th | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 10th | cop |
| 4 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 10th | compound |
| 5 | 10th | 10th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | It | Saturday 10th | tree rules |
Option 2
It should be Sunday 18th
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 | 4 Sunday | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 Sunday | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Sunday | cop |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 Sunday | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | It | Sunday | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A fortnight later is the same weekday, Saturday 17th
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fortnight | det |
| 2 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weekday | nsubj |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 fortnight | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weekday | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weekday | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weekday | amod |
| 7 | weekday | weekday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Saturday | punct |
| 9 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 weekday | parataxis |
| 10 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 9 Saturday | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fortnight | the same weekday | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A fortnight is 13 days, so Friday is right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fortnight | det |
| 2 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 days | cop |
| 4 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 right | advmod |
| 8 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 right | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fortnight | 13 days | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Friday | right property | tree rules |
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