Test 9 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…

Priya: "Diwali's November this year and October last year, it's well random." Is it random?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Priya, it · What happens: be

This is test 9 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: Priya: "Diwali's November this year and October last year, it's well random."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 random	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 November	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 November	punct
4	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 November	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Diwali	case
6	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Priya	appos
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 November	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 October	cc
10	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 November	conj
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 year	amod
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Priya	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Priya	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 random	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 random	cop
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 random	advmod
17	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 random	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Priya					random, well property	tree rules

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: Is it random?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 random	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 random	nsubj
3	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					random property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it can fall in any month at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fall	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 month	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	can	it			all	month		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it follows the Moon and Sun, so it moves but stays in autumn

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 follows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follows	nsubj
4	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 follows	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Sun	cc
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Moon	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moves	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 moves	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moves	nsubj
12	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 follows	conj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stays	cc
14	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 moves	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 autumn	case
16	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	follow	present	it	the Moon and Sun		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme
2	move	present	it			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	present			autumn	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, a new date is drawn out of a hat each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 drawn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 date	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 date	amod
5	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drawn	aux:pass
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 hat	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hat	det
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	obl
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw out	present · passive		a new date		a hat	year		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary hat=Result

Option 4

No, it is on the very same date every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 date	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 date	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 date	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 date	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 date	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 same	advmod
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 date	amod
9	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 date	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			the same date	year		tree rules

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