Test 10 · Seasons, terms and holidays
Zane in Ukraine says, "Our winter holidays are longer than your two weeks." Is he right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zane, winter holidays · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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: Zane in Ukraine says, "Our winter holidays are longer than your two weeks."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zane | Zane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Ukraine | case |
| 3 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Zane | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 longer | punct |
| 7 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 holidays | nmod:poss |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holidays | compound |
| 9 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 longer | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 longer | cop |
| 11 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 weeks | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 weeks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 weeks | nummod |
| 15 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 longer | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 longer | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 longer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Zane in Ukraine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Our winter holidays | week | long 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: Is he right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Zane | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No, both countries have exactly two weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 countries | det |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 weeks | nummod |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | both countries | week | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
No, Ukraine has no winter holidays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 holidays | det |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holidays | compound |
| 7 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ukraine | no winter holidays | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yes, about late December to mid-January, longer than 2 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 December | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 December | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 December | advmod |
| 4 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 December | amod |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mid-January | case |
| 7 | mid-January | mid-January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 December | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 longer | punct |
| 9 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 December | parataxis |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 weeks | case |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 weeks | nummod |
| 12 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 longer | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yes, Ukraine has 3 months off in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ukraine | month; winter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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