Test 10 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
christmas in sydney is it snowy or what
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: christmas · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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 | christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 snowy | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 sydney | case |
| 3 | sydney | sydney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 christmas | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 snowy | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 snowy | nsubj |
| 6 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 snowy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | christmas in sydney | snowy 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, December is winter there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 winter | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 winter | compound |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 winter | cop |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 winter | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | December winter | there | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, it snows there every single Christmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 snows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 snows | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 snows | nsubj |
| 4 | snows | snow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 snows | advmod |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 Christmas | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Christmas | amod |
| 8 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 snows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snow | present | it | every single Christmas | there | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, it is summer there in December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 December | case |
| 8 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | december; summer | there property | tree rules |
Option 4
It is spring there in December
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 spring | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spring | cop |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spring | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 December | case |
| 6 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spring | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | spring | there | december | 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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