--- title: Puzzle: postpone means move later and prepone means move earlier. If… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Puzzle: postpone means move later and prepone means move earlier. If a match is postponed from Friday by two days and then preponed by one day, when is it? 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If a match is postponed from Friday by two days and then preponed by one day, when is it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Puzzle, prepone · **What happens:** mean, move, postpone, prepon, be · **To what, where:** match · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Puzzle: postpone means move later and prepone means move earlier. ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t11:1 # text = Puzzle: postpone means move later and prepone means move earlier. 1 Puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 postpone postpone NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 6 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 prepone prepone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 11 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Puzzle and postpone | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **move** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Puzzle and postpone *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | prepone | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **move** | infinitive | | | | | | early *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:* If a match is postponed from Friday by two days and then preponed by one day, when is it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t11:2 # text = If a match is postponed from Friday by two days and then preponed by one day, when is it? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 postponed postpone VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 preponed prepon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **postpone** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | a match | | | day; friday | | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **prepon** | participle | | | | | then; day | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | present | | match | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sunday ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t11:o1:1 # text = Sunday 1 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Thursday ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t11:o2:1 # text = Thursday 1 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Saturday ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t11:o3:1 # text = Saturday 1 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Friday ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t11:o4:1 # text = Friday 1 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 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. 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