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Test 2 · ★★ · The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back

Leo: "Samoa and American Samoa, 100 km apart, different days? That's mental." ("Mental" means crazy.) Why is it so?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, Mental · What happens: be, mean

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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: Leo: "Samoa and American Samoa, 100 km apart, different days?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Samoa	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Samoa	punct
4	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leo	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Samoa	cc
6	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Samoa	amod
7	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Samoa	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 km	punct
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 km	nummod
10	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Samoa	appos
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 km	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 days	punct
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 days	amod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leo	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Leo	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: That's mental."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mental	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mental	cop
3	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mental	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mental	punct

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

Sentence 3: ("Mental" means crazy.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mental	punct
3	Mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mental	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Mental					crazy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: Why is it so?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Why	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	1 Why	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One of them uses a Moon calendar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 uses	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 calendar	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 calendar	compound
7	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	One of them	a Moon calendar					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Patient

Option 2

Samoa has no calendar at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 calendar	det
4	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 calendar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Samoa	no calendar		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The date line runs between them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 line	det
2	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 line	compound
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the date line					between them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory

Option 4

American Samoa is a year behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Samoa	amod
2	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 year	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 year	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 year	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	American Samoa	a year				behind property	tree rules

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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