Test 3 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"
Charlie's mate: "Born 2016, it's 2026, so you're 10, innit?" Charlie: "Not till December." Who's right in June?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: 2026, 10
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Charlie's mate: "Born 2016, it's 2026, so you're 10, innit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Charlie | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 innit | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 2016 | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 2016 | punct |
| 6 | Born | born | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 2016 | amod |
| 7 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 mate | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 2026 | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 2026 | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 2026 | cop |
| 11 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 2016 | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 10 | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 10 | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 10 | nsubj |
| 15 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 10 | cop |
| 16 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 mate | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | mate | 2026 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | 10 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | innit in a quote | infinitive | Charlie's mate | 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: Charlie: "Not till December."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 December | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 December | punct |
| 4 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 December | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 December | case |
| 6 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charlie | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charlie | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charlie | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Who's right in June?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 June | case |
| 5 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | june | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Neither; he's 8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 8 | advmod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 8 | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 8 | cop |
| 5 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | 8 | neither property | tree rules |
Option 2
Neither; he's 11
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 11 | advmod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 11 | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 11 | cop |
| 5 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | 11 | neither property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Charlie; he's still 9 until his birthday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 9 | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 9 | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 9 | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 9 | advmod |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Charlie | appos |
| 7 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 birthday | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 9 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 9 | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Charlie | 9 | until Charlie's birthday; still | tree rules |
Option 4
The mate; he's 10 for the whole of the year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mate | det |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whole | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 10 | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 10 | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 10 | cop |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 mate | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 whole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whole | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whole | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | mate | 10 | tree rules |
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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