Test 3 · Days, weeks and months
Amira asks, "Who's right, Dubai (in the United Arab Emirates) with Saturday and Sunday off, or Saudi with Friday and Saturday?"
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amira · What happens: ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amira | Amira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 5 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 right | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dubai | punct |
| 9 | Dubai | Dubai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 right | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Emirates | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Emirates | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Emirates | det |
| 13 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Emirates | amod |
| 14 | Arab | Arab | PROPN | _ | 15 Emirates | flat |
| 15 | Emirates | Emirates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 right | parataxis |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Emirates | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Saturday | case |
| 18 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Sunday | cc |
| 20 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Saturday | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 asks | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Saudi | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 Saudi | cc |
| 24 | Saudi | Saudi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Friday | case |
| 26 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Saudi | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Saturday | cc |
| 28 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Friday | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 Saudi | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Amira | saturday | off property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Dubai obl; right property | tree rules |
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
Neither, because the real weekend is only ever Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 10 Sunday | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 Sunday | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 weekend | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weekend | amod |
| 6 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sunday | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Sunday | cop |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 Sunday | advmod |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 Sunday | advmod |
| 10 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real weekend | Sunday | ever | neither property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only Dubai, because weekends must be Saturday and Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Dubai | advmod |
| 2 | Dubai | Dubai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Saturday | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 Saturday | mark |
| 5 | weekends | weekend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Saturday | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 Saturday | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Saturday | cop |
| 8 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dubai | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Sunday | cc |
| 10 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saturday | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | weekends | Saturday and Sunday | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Only Saudi Arabia, because Friday is always a day off everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Arabia | advmod |
| 2 | Saudi | Saudi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Arabia | amod |
| 3 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 day | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 day | mark |
| 6 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 day | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 day | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 day | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Arabia | appos |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 day | compound:prt |
| 12 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 day | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Friday | a day | always, everywhere property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Neither is wrong; countries choose their own weekends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | 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 | _ | 6 choose | punct |
| 5 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 choose | nsubj |
| 6 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | parataxis |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weekends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weekends | amod |
| 9 | weekends | weekend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 choose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Neither | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | countries | weekend | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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