Test 9 · ★ · Leap years and 29 February birthdays

What would happen if we added a leap day every single year?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: happen, add

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 added	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 added	nsubj
6	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	compound
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	obl:unmarked
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 year	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 year	amod
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	we				day; year		vn mix-22.1-2 «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

The calendar would match the Sun perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calendar	det
2	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 match	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 match	aux
4	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 match	obj
7	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	4 match	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	would	the calendar	the Sun				perfectly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient

Option 2

February would vanish completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 vanish	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	aux
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 vanish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	February					completely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The calendar would run ahead of the Sun very quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calendar	det
2	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 quickly	advmod
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	the calendar					of the Sun; ahead, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of sun=Trajectory

Option 4

Every year would have 365 days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	365	365	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

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

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