Exam question 3 · Leap years and 29 February birthdays

Whereas a person was born upon 29 February 2016, ascertain the age attained upon the fourth occurrence thereafter of that date.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: bear, ascertain, attain · To what, where: person, age

This is exam question 3 of lesson 112 «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» of the world 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 born	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 born	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 born	aux:pass
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ascertain	advcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 29	case
7	29	29	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 born	obl
8	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 29	nmod:unmarked
9	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 29	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ascertain	punct
11	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 age	det
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ascertain	obj
14	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 age	acl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 occurrence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 occurrence	det
17	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 occurrence	amod
18	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attained	obl
19	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	22 date	advmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 date	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 date	det
22	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attained	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		a person	upon 29 February	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the age		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic
3	attain	participle		the age not said here	upon the fourth occurrence; of that date	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Twelve full years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Eight years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sixteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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