Exam question 2 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…

Ascertain the date in the Gregorian calendar corresponding at present to 25 December in the Julian calendar.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Gregorian calendar · What happens: ascertain, correspond · To what, where: date, Gregorian calendar, present

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 calendar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calendar	det
6	Gregorian	gregorian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 calendar	amod
7	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
8	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 calendar	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 present	case
10	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 corresponding	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 25	case
12	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 present	nmod
13	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 25	nmod:unmarked
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 calendar	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 calendar	det
16	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 calendar	compound
17	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 corresponding	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the date		the Gregorian calendar			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	correspond	gerund	the Gregorian calendar not said here			present to 25 December		in the Julian calendar	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

19 January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 19	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

25 December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 25	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

7 January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 7	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

14 January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 14	nmod:unmarked

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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