Test 7 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"
A Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!" Ellie's birthday is 10 January. When is the half-birthday cake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birthday, birthday cake · What happens: be · To what, where: 10 January
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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 Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nan | det |
| 2 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nan | compound |
| 3 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nan | compound |
| 4 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 cake | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bostin | punct |
| 7 | Bostin | Bostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cake | compound |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bostin | punct |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nan | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 birthday | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 14 birthday | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 14 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cake | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bab | punct |
| 16 | bab | bab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nan | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 nan | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nan | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Ellie's birthday is 10 January.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ellie | case |
| 3 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 January | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 January | cop |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 January | nummod |
| 6 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 January | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ellie's birthday | 10 January | tree rules |
Sentence 3: When is the half-birthday cake?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 When | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 birthday | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| 6 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cake | compound |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the birthday cake | when property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
10 June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 10 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
5 July
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 5 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
10 July
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 10 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
10 December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 10 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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