Exam question 2 · The Moon's month and the year round the Sun
Given that a full moon is observed upon the third of March, determine the approximate date of the succeeding full moon.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, observe, determine, succeed · To what, where: full moon, approximate date
This is exam question 2 of lesson 119 «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» 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 | 14 determine | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 observed | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moon | amod |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 observed | aux:pass |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Given | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 third | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 third | det |
| 10 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 March | case |
| 12 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 third | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Given | punct |
| 14 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 date | det |
| 16 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 date | amod |
| 17 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 determine | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 moon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 20 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 moon | amod |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moon | amod |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 date | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | you not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | observe | present · passive | a full moon | upon the third of March | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the approximate date of the succeeding full moon | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic | ||||
| 4 | succeed | gerund | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 third of March of the following year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 March | case |
| 4 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 third | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 third | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The first or second of April
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 second | cc |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 first | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 April | case |
| 6 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 second | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The third of May
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 May | case |
| 4 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 third | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The tenth of March
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tenth | det |
| 2 | tenth | tenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 March | case |
| 4 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tenth | nmod |
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.
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