Test 7 · ★ · Leap years and 29 February birthdays
Joe: "Is there a 29 February in every school year?" What's the answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Joe, answer · What happens: be · To what, where: 29 February
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Joe: "Is there a 29 February in every school year?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe | Joe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 February | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Is | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Is | punct |
| 4 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 February | cop |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 Is | expl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 February | det |
| 7 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 February | nummod |
| 8 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 year | det |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 year | compound |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 February | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 February | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 February | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Joe | a 29 February | year | tree rules |
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: What's the answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, school years never contain a 29 February
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 contain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | compound |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 contain | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 contain | advmod |
| 6 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 February | det |
| 8 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 February | nummod |
| 9 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 contain | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not contain | present | school years | february | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
Yes, every school year has one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 year | det |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | compound |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every school year | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, only in one school year out of every 4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 year | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 year | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 year | nummod |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 year | compound |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 4 | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 4 | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 4 | det |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 year | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yes, but only in Scotland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 Scotland | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 Scotland | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 Scotland | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Scotland | case |
| 6 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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