Test 2 · ★ · What day of the week will it be?
Harry: "Christmas is a Friday, so New Year's Day's Friday too, no cap." Is he right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Christmas · What happens: be · To what, where: Friday
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 115 «What day of the week will it be?» 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: Harry: "Christmas is a Friday, so New Year's Day's Friday too, no cap."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friday | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friday | punct |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Friday | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Friday | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Friday | det |
| 7 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Harry | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Friday | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 Friday | advmod |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Year | compound |
| 11 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Day | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Year | case |
| 13 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Friday | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Day | case |
| 15 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Harry | conj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Harry | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cap | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 cap | det |
| 19 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Harry | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 cap | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Christmas | a Friday | 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.
Sentence 2: Is he right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Christmas | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No, New Year's Day is on a Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 Saturday | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Year | compound |
| 4 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Year | case |
| 6 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Saturday | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Saturday | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Saturday | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Saturday | det |
| 10 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | New Year's Day | a Saturday | tree rules |
Option 2
No, New Year's Day is on a Thursday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 Thursday | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Year | compound |
| 4 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Year | case |
| 6 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Thursday | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Thursday | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Thursday | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Thursday | det |
| 10 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | New Year's Day | a Thursday | tree rules |
Option 3
No, those two days never share a weekday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 share | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 days | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 share | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 share | advmod |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weekday | det |
| 9 | weekday | weekday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not share | present | that two days | a weekday | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yes, they are exactly 7 days apart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 days | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 days | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 days | cop |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 7 | advmod |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 7 days | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | 7 days | apart property | tree rules |
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