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Test 8 · Seasons, terms and holidays

A Kiwi (New Zealand) cousin texts in December: "Grab your jandals, beach this arvo!" ("arvo" means afternoon.) Why does that make sense?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: arvo, that · What happens: grab, mean, make · To what, where: jandals, sense

This is test 8 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: A Kiwi (New Zealand) cousin texts in December: "Grab your jandals, beach this arvo!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Kiwi	det
2	Kiwi	Kiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 texts	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 Zealand	punct
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Kiwi	appos
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 Zealand	punct
7	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 texts	compound
8	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 December	case
10	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 texts	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Grab	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Grab	punct
13	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 texts	parataxis
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 jandals	nmod:poss
15	jandals	jandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Grab	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beach	punct
17	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jandals	conj
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 arvo	det
19	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Grab	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Grab	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab in a quote	infinitive		your jandals and beach					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent jandal=Beneficiary arvo=Theme

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: ("arvo" means afternoon.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 arvo	punct
3	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 arvo	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	arvo				afternoon		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Why does that make sense?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	that	sense					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Jandals are warm winter boots over there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jandals	jandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 winter	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 winter	cop
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 winter	amod
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boots	nsubj
5	boots	boot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 boots	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Jandals	warm winter					tree rules
2	boot	present	warm winter			there			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

December is summer in New Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 summer	dislocated
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 summer	cop
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Zealand	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zealand	flat
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 summer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		summer		New Zealand		December dislocated	tree rules

Option 3

New Zealand has no winter at all, ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zealand	flat
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 winter	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 winter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ever	punct
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	New Zealand				ever; winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

December is spring everywhere on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spring	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	cop
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 spring	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spring	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		December spring		Earth		everywhere 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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