Test 7 · Days, weeks and months
Ben's mum: "Bins every other Thursday, last was the 5th." The month has 30 days. When is the bin day after the 19th?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: month, bin day · What happens: be, have · To what, where: 5th
This is test 7 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: Ben's mum: "Bins every other Thursday, last was the 5th."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ben | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bins | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bins | punct |
| 6 | Bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mum | appos |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Thursday | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Thursday | amod |
| 9 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bins | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 5th | punct |
| 11 | last | last | ADV | _ | 14 5th | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 5th | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 5th | det |
| 14 | 5th | 5th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 6 Bins | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the 5th | last 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.
Sentence 2: The month has 30 days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the month | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: When is the bin day after the 19th?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 When | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 19th | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 19th | det |
| 8 | 19th | 19th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 5 day | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bin day after the 19th | when property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The 2nd day of next month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | 2nd | 2nd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 month | case |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 month | amod |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The 1st day of next month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | 1st | 1st | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 month | case |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 month | amod |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The 3rd of next month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 3rd | det |
| 2 | 3rd | 3rd | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 month | case |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 month | amod |
| 5 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 3rd | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The 26th of this month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 26th | det |
| 2 | 26th | 26th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 month | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 month | det |
| 5 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 26th | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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