Test 11 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…
A video game shows Chinese New Year fireworks on 1 January. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: video game · What happens: show, be · To what, where: Year fireworks
This is test 11 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: A video game shows Chinese New Year fireworks on 1 January.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 2 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 game | compound |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Year | compound |
| 6 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Year | compound |
| 7 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fireworks | compound |
| 8 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shows | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 January | case |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 January | nummod |
| 11 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fireworks | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a video game | Year fireworks | on 1 January | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent firework=Recipient |
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: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Chinese New Year has no fireworks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 3 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 fireworks | det |
| 6 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Chinese New Year | no fireworks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, Chinese New Year is always on 1 January everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Year | compound |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Year | compound |
| 5 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 January | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 January | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 January | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 January | case |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 January | nummod |
| 10 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 11 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chinese New Year | on 1 January; always property | tree rules |
Option 3
Chinese New Year is in high summer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 3 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 summer | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 summer | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 summer | case |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 summer | amod |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chinese New Year | in high summer | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 3 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | nsubj |
| 4 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 21 | case |
| 6 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 falls | obl |
| 7 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 20 | cc |
| 9 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 21 | conj |
| 10 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Chinese New Year | 21 January | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between 21=Location |
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