Exam question 3 · What day of the week will it be?

Identify the date of "the second Friday in June", given that the first of June is a Monday.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, first · What happens: identify, give, be · To what, where: date, June, Monday

This is exam question 3 of lesson 115 «What day of the week will it be?» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Friday	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Friday	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Friday	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 Friday	amod
8	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 date	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 June	case
10	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Friday	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 June	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 June	acl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 Monday	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 first	det
16	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 Monday	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 June	case
18	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 first	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Monday	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Monday	det
21	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 given	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the date of the second Friday and June	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme
2	give	participle		June not said here	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	the first of June	a Monday	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

5 June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 5	flat

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

Option 2

9 June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 9	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

12 June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 12	flat

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

Option 4

13 June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 13	flat

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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