Test 6 · Days, weeks and months
A Scottish nan: "Dinnae fash, bairn, ye ken the rhyme: thirty days hath September." ("Dinnae fash" means don't worry.) Which month in her rhyme has 30 days?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scottish nan, ye, month, nan · What happens: fash, ken, have, mean, not worry, rhyme · To what, where: bairn, rhyme · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: A Scottish nan: "Dinnae fash, bairn, ye ken the rhyme: thirty days hath September."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nan | det |
| 2 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nan | amod |
| 3 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hath | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 fash | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fash | punct |
| 6 | Dinnae | Dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 fash | dep |
| 7 | fash | fash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nan | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bairn | punct |
| 9 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fash | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ken | punct |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 ken | nsubj |
| 12 | ken | ken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fash | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rhyme | det |
| 14 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ken | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 hath | punct |
| 16 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hath | nsubj |
| 18 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hath | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hath | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hath | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fash in a quote | infinitive | a Scottish nan not said here | bairn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ken in a quote | present | ye | the rhyme | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | a Scottish nan | september | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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: ("Dinnae fash" means don't worry.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fash | punct |
| 3 | Dinnae | Dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 fash | discourse |
| 4 | fash | fash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fash | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 worry | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 worry | advmod |
| 9 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fash in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not worry | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Sentence 3: Which month in her rhyme has 30 days?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 rhyme | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rhyme | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 month | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | which month in nan's rhyme | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rhyme | nan | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1
October
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
August
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
September
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September | September | 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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