--- title: Identify the date upon which April Fools' Day is customarily observed. — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the date upon which April Fools' Day is customarily observed. Exam question 1 of lesson 440 «April Fools' Day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/440-april-fools-day/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [April Fools' Day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/440-april-fools-day/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · April Fools' Day Identify the date upon which April Fools' Day is customarily observed. **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, observe · **To what, where:** date, Day This is exam question 1 of lesson 440 «April Fools' Day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/440-april-fools-day/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:e1:1 # text = Identify the date upon which April Fools' Day is customarily observed. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 6 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Fools Fool PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 customarily customarily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 observed observe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the date | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme | | 2 | **observe** | present · passive | | April Fools's Day | | | | upon the date; customarily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} The fourteenth day of April ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:e1:o1:1 # text = The fourteenth day of April 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fourteenth fourteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The last day of March ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:e1:o2:1 # text = The last day of March 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} The first day of May ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:e1:o3:1 # text = The first day of May 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The first day of April ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:e1:o4:1 # text = The first day of April 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` 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. 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