Test 8 · ★ · Leap years and 29 February birthdays
Jade: "No leap years for 100 years and we'd be about 25 days out." Is that roughly right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, that · What happens: be · To what, where: 25 days
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Jade: "No leap years for 100 years and we'd be about 25 days out."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 years | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 years | punct |
| 4 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 years | det |
| 5 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 years | compound |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Jade | appos |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 years | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 days | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 days | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 days | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 days | cop |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 25 | advmod |
| 15 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 years | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 days | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jade | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jade | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | would | we | 25 days | out property | 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: Is that roughly right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | right, roughly property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, about 100 days out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 days | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 100 | advmod |
| 4 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 days | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, nothing would change at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 change | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 change | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | aux |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 change | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | would | nothing | all | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
No, only about 6 hours out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 hours | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 6 | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 6 | advmod |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 hours | nummod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 hours | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, about 24 to 25 days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 days | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 24 | advmod |
| 4 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 25 | case |
| 6 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 24 | nmod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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