Exam question 4 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…
Given that the Chinese zodiac comprises twelve animals in recurring succession and that 2024 was a Year of the Dragon, determine the animal of the year 2036.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Chinese zodiac, 2024, you · What happens: give, comprise, recur, be, determine · To what, where: twelve animals, succession, Year, animal
This is exam question 4 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 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 comprises | mark |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 comprises | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 zodiac | det |
| 4 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 zodiac | amod |
| 5 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comprises | nsubj |
| 6 | comprises | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 determine | advcl |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 animals | nummod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 comprises | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 recurring | mark |
| 10 | recurring | recur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 comprises | advcl |
| 11 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recurring | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Year | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 2024 | mark |
| 14 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Year | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Year | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Year | det |
| 17 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recurring | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Dragon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dragon | det |
| 20 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Year | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 determine | punct |
| 22 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 animal | det |
| 24 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 determine | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 year | det |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 animal | nmod |
| 28 | 2036 | 2036 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 year | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | comprise | present | the Chinese zodiac | twelve animals | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | recur | gerund | the Chinese zodiac not said here | succession | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | 2024 | a Year | of the Dragon | tree rules | |||
| 5 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the animal of the year | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The Dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Monkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Monkey | det |
| 2 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Horse | det |
| 2 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/117-other-calendars/e4/