Exam question 2 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

Identify the principal reason for which the date of Easter changes each year.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, date · What happens: identify, change · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 changes	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 date	det
8	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changes	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Easter	case
10	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 date	nmod
11	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changes	obl:unmarked
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	change	present	the date of Easter				year	for the principal reason	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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

It follows the harvest of wheat

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	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harvest	det
4	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follows	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wheat	case
6	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harvest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	It	the harvest of wheat					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It follows the Moon

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	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Moon	det
4	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	It	the Moon					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme

Option 3

It follows the Sun's eclipses

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	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eclipses	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Sun	case
6	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	It	the Sun's eclipses					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eclipse=Theme
2	eclipse		the Sun						nom eclipse «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It is chosen by vote each year

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 chosen	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 vote	case
5	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present · passive	vote	It			year		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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