Test 4 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…
Which holiday is older than the English-speaking countries themselves?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: holiday · What happens: be, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 holiday | det |
| 2 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 older | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 older | cop |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 countries | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 countries | det |
| 7 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 speaking | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 English | punct |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 countries | amod |
| 10 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 older | obl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 countries | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 older | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which holiday | than the speaking countries countries; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «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 · ← Mova's choice
Independence Day, from the year 1776
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | compound |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 year | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | appos |
| 7 | 1776 | 1776 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 year | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Australia Day, from the year 1788
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | compound |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 year | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | appos |
| 7 | 1788 | 1788 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 year | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Halloween, from the Celtic festival of Samhain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halloween | Halloween | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 festival | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 festival | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 festival | det |
| 5 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 festival | amod |
| 6 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Halloween | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Samhain | case |
| 8 | Samhain | Samhain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 festival | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Canada Day, from the year 1867
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | compound |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 year | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | appos |
| 7 | 1867 | 1867 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 year | flat |
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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