Test 7 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…
Last year Easter was in late March. What can you say about next year's Easter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: Last year Easter was in late March.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 year | amod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 March | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 year | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 March | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 March | case |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 March | amod |
| 7 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 March | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | year | in late March | 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.
Sentence 2: What can you say about next year's Easter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 year | case |
| 9 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 year | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | you | year | about property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It may fall on a quite different date
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | aux |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 date | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 date | det |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 different | advmod |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 date | amod |
| 8 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | may | It | a different date | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on date=Location |
Option 2
It will be exactly one week later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 week | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 week | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 week | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 week | nummod |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 week | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | It | one week | late property | tree rules |
Option 3
It will be in December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 December | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 December | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 December | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 December | case |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | in December | tree rules |
Option 4
It will be on exactly the same date as last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 date | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 date | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 date | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 date | case |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 date | advmod |
| 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 | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 date | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | the same date | year | exactly property | tree rules |
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