Test 3 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…

What would happen to the season of Ramadan over about 33 years?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 season	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 season	det
6	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ramadan	case
8	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 season	nmod
9	over	over	ADV	_	11 33	advmod
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 33	advmod
11	33	33	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					season; year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 would stay in the very same month

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 month	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 month	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 month	amod
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It				month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would happen twice every single year

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 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 happen	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	It				year	twice property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would move through all four seasons and come back

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 seasons	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 seasons	det
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 seasons	nummod
7	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 move	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	It				season		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would move only one day later over all those 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	3 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl:unmarked
7	later	later	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 years	det:predet
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 years	det
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	It				day; year	later property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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