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Test 9 · Days, weeks and months

Max's sister says the week has 7 days "cos God made it", Dad says "cos of the Moon, sort of". What's the fairest answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, week, God, Dad, fairest answer · What happens: say, have, make, be · To what, where: it, cos · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Max's sister says the week has 7 days "cos God made it", Dad says "cos of the Moon, sort of".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Max	case
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obl:unmarked
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 days	punct
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
12	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 has	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
17	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cos	punct
20	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 says	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Moon	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Moon	det
23	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cos	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sort	punct
25	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cos	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 sort	fixed
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cos	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Max's sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	the week						tree rules
3	make in a quote	past	God	it			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	say speech: assert	present	Dad	cos of the Moon sort					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent co=Topic

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 the fairest answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fairest answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

There are several reasons, including both, and nobody is totally sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reasons	amod
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 both	punct
6	including	including	ADP	_	7 both	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 reasons	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sure	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 sure	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sure	cop
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	13 sure	advmod
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 are	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	several reasons including both			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	nobody					sure, totally property	tree rules

Option 2

Only the sister is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 sister	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sister					right property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Neither; the week has 7 days by accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 has	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 week	det
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 accident	case
9	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the week				day	by accident; neither property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only Dad is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Dad	advmod
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dad					right property	tree rules

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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