Exam question 1 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

Ascertain the date upon which Independence Day is observed in the United States.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, observe · To what, where: date, Independence Day, United States

This is exam question 1 of lesson 97 «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 observed	obl
6	Independence	Independence	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Day	compound
7	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 observed	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 observed	aux:pass
9	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 date	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 States	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 States	det
12	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 States	amod
13	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 observed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the date					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	observe	present · passive		Independence Day		the United States		upon the date	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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

11 November

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 11	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

25 December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 25	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

4 July

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 July	nummod
2	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

1 July

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 1	nmod:unmarked

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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