Test 8 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

Why do many people in Britain, Canada and Australia fall silent on 11 November?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many people · What happens: do, fall · To what, where: 11

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fall	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fall	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Britain	case
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Canada	punct
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Britain	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Australia	cc
10	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Britain	conj
11	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fall	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 11	case
14	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 fall	obl
15	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 11	nmod:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many people in Britain and Canada and Australia not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present	many people in Britain and Canada and Australia			11 November		silent property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on 11=Location

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

To start the new school year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 start	mark
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 school	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 school	amod
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 year	compound
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	to-infinitive					year		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

To mark the shortest day of the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	to-infinitive					day		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To remember people who died in wars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remember	mark
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 people	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 wars	case
7	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	to-infinitive		people					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	die	past	people					in wars	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute

Option 4

To listen for the first winter snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 listen	mark
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 snow	amod
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snow	compound
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	to-infinitive						for the first winter snow	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for snow=Theme

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