Test 12 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

Mia says Easter's on the same date every year. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 date	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Easter	case
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 date	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 date	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 date	amod
8	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl:unmarked
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia				year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

No, it changes because of the weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 changes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 changes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 changes	nsubj
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 weather	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 because	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weather	det
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	it					because the weather	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, it is always on 1 April

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 April	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 April	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 April	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 April	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 April	case
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 April	nummod
8	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					on 1 April; always property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it is always the same Sunday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 Sunday	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Sunday	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Sunday	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 Sunday	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sunday	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Sunday	amod
8	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the same Sunday				always property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, its date changes each year because it follows the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 changes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 changes	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 date	nmod:poss
4	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	nsubj
5	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	obl:unmarked
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 follows	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 follows	nsubj
10	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changes	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Moon	det
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	its date				year		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	follow	present	date	the Moon					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme

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