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Test 9 · Seasons, terms and holidays

A Canadian friend pulls on her toque in January while a friend in Sydney, Australia, wears togs. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Canadian friend · What happens: pull, wear · To what, where: togs

This is test 9 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 Canadian friend pulls on her toque in January while a friend in Sydney, Australia, wears togs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	nsubj
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 toque	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 toque	nmod:poss
7	toque	toque	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 January	case
9	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 toque	nmod
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 friend	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Sydney	case
14	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Australia	punct
16	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Sydney	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wears	punct
18	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pulls	conj
19	togs	tog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wears	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pulls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a Canadian friend					in Sydney and Australia; on friend's toque in January	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on toque=Theme
2	wear	present	a Canadian friend not said here	togs					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tog=Source

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Canada is much closer to the Sun than Australia is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 closer	advmod
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Canada					to the Sun; than Australia; close property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is winter in Canada and summer in Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 winter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 winter	cop
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Canada	case
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 winter	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 summer	cc
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 winter	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 winter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	winter and summer		Canada		in Australia	tree rules

Option 3

It is winter in both countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 winter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 winter	cop
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 countries	det
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 winter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	winter		both countries			tree rules

Option 4

It is summer in both countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 summer	nsubj
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 countries	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 countries	det
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 summer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	summer		both countries			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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