Exam question 1 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Islamic calendar?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: Islamic calendar

This is exam question 1 of lesson 117 «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 calendar	det
10	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 calendar	amod
11	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the Islamic calendar				of the following statements; accurately property	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

It is identical with the Julian calendar

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	3 identical	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 identical	cop
3	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 calendar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calendar	det
6	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 calendar	compound
7	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 identical	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					with the Julian calendar; identical property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It adds a thirteenth month in seven of every nineteen years

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 adds	nsubj
2	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adds	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 seven	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 adds	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 years	det
10	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seven	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	It			seven of every nineteen years	month		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It is purely solar, its year being 365 days

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	4 solar	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 solar	cop
3	purely	purely	ADV	_	4 solar	advmod
4	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 days	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 year	nmod:poss
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 days	nsubj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 days	cop
9	365	365	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 solar	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					purely, solar property	tree rules
2	is a	gerund	its year	365 days					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is purely lunar, its year being approximately 354 days

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	4 lunar	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lunar	cop
3	purely	purely	ADV	_	4 lunar	advmod
4	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 year	nmod:poss
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 days	nsubj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 days	cop
9	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	10 354	advmod
10	354	354	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lunar	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					lunar, purely property	tree rules
2	is a	gerund	its year	354 days					tree rules

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