Test 6 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

Which statement is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 6 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 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement					true 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

Remembrance Day is in the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembrance	Remembrance	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Day	compound
2	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spring	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spring	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 spring	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Remembrance Day				in the spring		tree rules

Option 2

St Patrick's Day is Scotland's national 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	9 day	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 day	cop
6	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Scotland	case
8	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	St Patrick's Day	Scotland's national day					tree rules

Option 3

Easter is always on the same date

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 date	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 date	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 date	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 date	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 date	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 date	amod
7	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hanukkah is a Jewish festival lasting eight nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hanukkah	Hanukkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 festival	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 festival	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 festival	det
4	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 festival	amod
5	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	lasting	last	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 festival	acl
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 nights	nummod
8	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lasting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Hanukkah	a Jewish festival					tree rules
2	last	gerund	a Jewish festival not said here				night		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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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