Exam question 3 · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"
A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2026. State the year of birth.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person · What happens: celebrate · To what, where: eightieth anniversary
This is exam question 3 of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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
Sentence 1: A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2026.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 celebrates | nsubj |
| 3 | celebrates | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 anniversary | det |
| 5 | eightieth | eightieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anniversary | amod |
| 6 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 celebrates | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 birth | case |
| 8 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anniversary | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 birth | nmod |
| 12 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 year | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 celebrates | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | present | a person | the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniversary=Theme |
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: State the year of birth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 birth | case |
| 5 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1956
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
2106
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2106 | 2106 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
1946
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1946 | 1946 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1936
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1936 | 1936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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