Test 7 · ★ · Venus

If you had a birthday every Venus year, would you get more or fewer birthdays than days?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: have, get · To what, where: birthday, more birthdays

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 4 «Venus» of the space 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 birthday	det
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
7	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 year	compound
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 birthdays	amod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 fewer	cc
15	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 more	conj
16	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obj
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 days	case
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	you	a birthday			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Patient
2	get	would	you	more birthdays			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer birthday=Stimulus

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

Fewer birthdays, because its year is much longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 birthdays	amod
2	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 longer	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 longer	mark
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 year	nmod:poss
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 longer	obl:unmarked
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 longer	cop
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 birthdays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					year	long property	tree rules

Option 2

The same number, they are equal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 number	amod
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 equal	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 number	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 equal	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 equal	cop
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

More birthdays, because its year is shorter than its day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 birthdays	amod
2	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shorter	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shorter	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 shorter	mark
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 year	nmod:poss
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shorter	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shorter	cop
8	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 day	nmod:poss
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shorter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	More birthdays				day	short property	tree rules

Option 4

No birthdays, Venus has no year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 birthdays	det
2	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 birthdays	punct
4	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	no birthdays				year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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