Test 7 · Seasons, terms and holidays
Wanjiru's teacher in Kenya talks about the "long rains". What would a visitor be wrong to expect there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: talk, be, expect
This is test 7 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: Wanjiru's teacher in Kenya talks about the "long rains".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wanjiru | Wanjiru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Wanjiru | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talks | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Kenya | case |
| 5 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod |
| 6 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 rains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rains | det |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 rains | punct |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rains | amod |
| 11 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 talks | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 rains | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 talks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Wanjiru's teacher in Kenya | about the long rains | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about rain=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 would a visitor be wrong to expect there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 visitor | det |
| 4 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrong | cop |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 expect | mark |
| 8 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrong | csubj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 expect | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | expect | to-infinitive | there | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A season with lots of rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 season | det |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 lots | case |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 season | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rain | case |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Another rainy season later in the year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 season | det |
| 2 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 season | amod |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 later | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Warm weather most of the year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weather | amod |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 weather | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 most | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A cold snowy winter like in Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 winter | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winter | amod |
| 3 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winter | amod |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Canada | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Canada | case |
| 7 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 winter | nmod |
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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