Test 5 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…
Priya lights lamps at home for a festival of lights in autumn. Which festival is it most likely to be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Priya, festival · What happens: light, be · To what, where: lamps, home
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: Priya lights lamps at home for a festival of lights in autumn.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lights | nsubj |
| 2 | lights | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lights | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lights | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 festival | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 festival | det |
| 8 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lights | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lights | case |
| 10 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 festival | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 autumn | case |
| 12 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lights | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lights | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | present | Priya | lamps | home | for a festival of lights in autumn | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lamp=Product for festival=Beneficiary |
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.
Sentence 2: Which festival is it most likely to be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 festival | det |
| 2 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 likely | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 likely | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which festival | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | to-infinitive | which festival not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
St Patrick's Day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Patrick | flat |
| 2 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Day | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Patrick | case |
| 4 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Anzac Day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anzac | Anzac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | compound |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Diwali
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diwali | Diwali | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Easter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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