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Test 10 · ★ · Leap years and 29 February birthdays

Ewan's mum, highkey annoyed: "Brilliant, a whole extra day in February for nothing." Why does she say it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ewan · What happens: say · To what, where: highkey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 112 «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» 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

Sentence 1: Ewan's mum, highkey annoyed: "Brilliant, a whole extra day in February for nothing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ewan	Ewan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ewan	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Brilliant	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 highkey	punct
5	highkey	highkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	conj
6	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 highkey	amod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Brilliant	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Brilliant	punct
9	Brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 day	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
13	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Brilliant	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 February	case
16	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 day	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 nothing	case
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 day	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Brilliant	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Brilliant	punct

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

Sentence 2: Why does she say it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	Ewan	highkey					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

The options

Option 1

She must pay a tax on 29 February

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tax	det
5	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 February	case
7	29	29	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 February	nummod
8	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	must	She	a tax			february		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset

Option 2

Leap days are always bank holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	compound
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 holidays	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 holidays	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 holidays	advmod
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holidays	compound
6	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Leap days	bank holidays				always property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

February has fewer days in a leap year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
7	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 year	compound
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	February				day; year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her pay is the same each month, but she works one more day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 pay	nmod:poss
2	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 same	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 same	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 same	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 works	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 works	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 works	nsubj
11	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 same	parataxis
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 works	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her pay				month	same property	tree rules
2	work	present	she				day		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pay		Her = she						nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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