Test 10 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…
Arash, whose gran lives in Bristol: "Our New Year's the first day of spring, proper job!" ("Proper job" is West Country for great.) When is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arash, Proper job, job · What happens: live, be · To what, where: Bristol, West Country
This is test 10 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. 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: Arash, whose gran lives in Bristol: "Our New Year's the first day of spring, proper job!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arash | Arash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lives | punct |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 gran | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Bristol | case |
| 7 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 10 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Year | nmod:poss |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Year | compound |
| 12 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Year | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 spring | case |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 job | punct |
| 20 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 job | amod |
| 21 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 job | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 job | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Arash | Bristol | day | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bristol=Location |
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: ("Proper job" is West Country for great.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Country | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 job | punct |
| 3 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 job | amod |
| 4 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Country | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 job | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Country | cop |
| 7 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Country | compound |
| 8 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 great | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Country | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Country | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Country | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Proper job | West Country | for great | tree rules |
Sentence 3: When is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 When | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 When | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | job | when property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 21 June, midsummer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 21 | advmod |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 June | nummod |
| 3 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 midsummer | punct |
| 5 | midsummer | midsummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 June | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Exactly 1 January, like us
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 1 | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 1 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 20 or 21 March
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 20 | advmod |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 21 | cc |
| 4 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 20 | conj |
| 5 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 20 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 1 September each year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1 | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 September | nummod |
| 3 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 September | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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