Test 11 · ★★★ · Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together

Kai's teacher: football every 3 days from Monday the 1st. Kai: "So it's always Mondays, easy." What's right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Mondays

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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: Kai's teacher: football every 3 days from Monday the 1st.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 1st	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 football	punct
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 1st	nsubj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 days	det
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 1st	nsubj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Monday	case
10	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 days	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 1st	det
12	1st	1st	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 1st	punct

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

Sentence 2: Kai: "So it's always Mondays, easy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 easy	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
4	So	so	ADV	_	10 easy	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Mondays	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Mondays	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 Mondays	advmod
8	Mondays	Monday	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 easy	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct

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

Sentence 3: What's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

No: it is always on Wednesdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 Wednesdays	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Wednesdays	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Wednesdays	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Wednesdays	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 Wednesdays	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Wednesdays	case
7	Wednesdays	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			no Wednesdays		always property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes: but only in the months of the year that have 31 days in them, like May

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 have	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 months	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 months	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 months	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 months	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 months	det
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obl:unmarked
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 May	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 May	case
19	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that				day; may; month; year	in them = they	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes: every 3 days is always a Monday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 Monday	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Monday	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 days	det
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Monday	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Monday	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 Monday	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Monday	det
9	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every 3 days	a Monday				always property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No: it lands on a different weekday each time, like Thursday the 4th

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 :	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 lands	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lands	nsubj
4	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 weekday	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 weekday	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weekday	amod
8	weekday	weekday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lands	obl
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lands	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Thursday	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 Thursday	case
13	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lands	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 4th	det
15	4th	4th	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	13 Thursday	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present	it			a different weekday	time		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on weekday=Destination

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