Exam question 4 · What day of the week will it be?

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the weekday of a fixed date in successive ordinary years.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, fix · To what, where: response, weekday

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weekday	det
13	weekday	weekday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 date	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 date	det
16	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 date	amod
17	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weekday	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 years	case
19	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 years	amod
20	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 years	amod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 concerning	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the weekday of a fixed date	year		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus weekday=Experiencer
5	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

It recedes by one day each and every year

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	2 recedes	nsubj
2	recedes	recede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recedes	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 recedes	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 year	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recedes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recede	present	It	each			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It advances by seven days each year

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	2 advances	nsubj
2	advances	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 advances	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 advances	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advance	present	It				day; year		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It advances by one day each year

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	2 advances	nsubj
2	advances	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 advances	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 advances	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advance	present	It				day; year		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It remains unchanged every single year

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	2 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remains	xcomp
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	It				year	unchanged property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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