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Test 11 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"

A cartoon cat says, "My birthday comes once in my life." Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon cat, birthday, you · What happens: say, come, put · To what, where: life, birthday · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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: A cartoon cat says, "My birthday comes once in my life."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	compound
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
7	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birthday	nmod:poss
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 comes	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 life	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon cat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present	My birthday			my life		once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location

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: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	birthday				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A birthday only happens on your first day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 birthday	det
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 happens	advmod
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 day	nmod:poss
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	a birthday				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A birthday comes every 4 years for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 birthday	det
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 years	det
5	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a birthday				year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A birthday only happens in leap years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 birthday	det
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 happens	advmod
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 years	compound
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	a birthday				year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A birthday comes round again every year on the same date

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 birthday	det
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl:unmarked
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 date	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 date	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 date	amod
11	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	present	a birthday			the same date	again; year	round property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on date=Location

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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