Test 9 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"

What would happen to Ruby's and her brother's ages if both had a birthday tomorrow?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: both · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: Ruby, birthday

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

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	to	to	ADP	_	5 Ruby	case
5	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ruby	case
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ages	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ages	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 brother	case
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Ruby	conj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 birthday	det
16	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl:unmarked
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would			Ruby and her brother's ages				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	both	a birthday			tomorrow		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Patient

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 right answer

Both would go up by 1, and the gap would stay 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 go	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 1	case
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stay	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gap	det
10	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stay	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	aux
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
13	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 stay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	would	Both					by 1	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	stay	would	the gap	3					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme 3=Location

Option 2

The gap would become 4 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gap	det
2	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the gap	4 years					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only Ruby's age would go up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 age	advmod
2	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 age	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ruby	case
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	would	Ruby's age						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

The gap would become 2 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gap	det
2	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the gap	2 years					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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