Test 13 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…
my brother reckons Thanksgiving's in October in the USA. right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: reckon · To what, where: Thanksgiving, USA
This is test 13 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | obj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Thanksgiving | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 October | case |
| 7 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 USA | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 USA | det |
| 10 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 reckons | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | my brother | Thanksgiving | the USA | october | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Attribute |
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, but only every other year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 year | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 year | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 year | advmod |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 year | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, in the USA it is the fourth Thursday of November
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 USA | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 USA | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 USA | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 USA | det |
| 5 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Thursday | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Thursday | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Thursday | det |
| 9 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 Thursday | amod |
| 10 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 USA | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 November | case |
| 12 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Thursday | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | the fourth Thursday | november | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, it is always the second Monday of October
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 Monday | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Monday | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Monday | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 Monday | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Monday | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 Monday | amod |
| 8 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 October | case |
| 10 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Monday | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | the second Monday | october | always property | tree rules |
Option 4
No, it is on 4 July
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 July | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 July | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 July | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 July | case |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 July | nummod |
| 7 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | on 4 July | 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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