Test 11 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

why's Christmas hot in Australia

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Christmas · What happens: be · To what, where: Australia

This is test 11 of lesson 97 «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hot	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Christmas			Australia		hot 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 · ✓ the right answer

In the Southern Hemisphere Christmas falls in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 Hemisphere	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hemisphere	det
3	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	4 Hemisphere	compound
4	Hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	obl
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 falls	nsubj
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 summer	case
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Christmas			the Southern Hemisphere	summer		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hemisphere=Location

Option 2

Australia is much closer to the Sun in December, so it's hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 closer	advmod
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 December	case
9	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sun	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hot	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 hot	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hot	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hot	cop
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 closer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Australia					to the Sun in December; close property	tree rules
2	is	present	Sun					hot property	tree rules

Option 3

Australia moves Christmas to the summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moves	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 summer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 summer	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Australia	Christmas			summer		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme

Option 4

It is only hot in the north of Australia

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	4 hot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 north	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the north of Australia		hot property	tree rules

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