Test 3 · ★ · What day of the week will it be?
Max: "My birthday's always on a Saturday!" His sister: "No chance." Who's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Max: "My birthday's always on a Saturday!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Max | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Saturday | punct |
| 4 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Saturday | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 birthday | case |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 Saturday | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Saturday | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Saturday | det |
| 10 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Max | parataxis |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Saturday | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Saturday | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: His sister: "No chance."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chance | punct |
| 5 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 chance | det |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Who's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 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 | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Max, but only in leap years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Max | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 years | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 years | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 years | compound |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Max | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The sister; birthdays move round the week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 birthdays | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 4 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 move | nsubj |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the sister's birthdays | week | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Neither; birthdays are always on Sundays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 3 birthdays | advmod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Sundays | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Sundays | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 Sundays | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Sundays | case |
| 7 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | birthdays | on Sundays; always property | tree rules |
Option 4
Max; birthdays always keep the same weekday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 birthdays | compound |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Max | punct |
| 3 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weekday | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weekday | amod |
| 8 | weekday | weekday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Max birthdays | the same weekday | always property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weekday=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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