Test 8 · ★ · What day of the week will it be?
Zoe's mum: "Payday's the last Friday, month's 30 days, starts on a Thursday. Do the needful and tell me the date."
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Payday, mum, you · What happens: be, start, do, tell · To what, where: last Friday, needful, date, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Zoe's mum: "Payday's the last Friday, month's 30 days, starts on a Thursday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Zoe | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Friday | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Friday | punct |
| 6 | Payday | Payday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Friday | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Friday | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Friday | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Friday | amod |
| 10 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 starts | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 days | punct |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 days | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 month | case |
| 14 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 days | nummod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Friday | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 starts | punct |
| 17 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Thursday | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Thursday | det |
| 20 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 starts | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Payday | the last Friday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start in a quote | present | Zoe's mum | thursday | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: Do the needful and tell me the date."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 needful | det |
| 3 | needful | needful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 date | det |
| 8 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | the needful | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needful=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the date | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient date=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The 2nd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 2nd | det |
| 2 | 2nd | 2nd | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The 30th
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 30th | det |
| 2 | 30th | 30th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The 23rd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 23rd | det |
| 2 | 23rd | 23rd | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The 29th
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 29th | det |
| 2 | 29th | 29th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
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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