Test 7 · ★ · What day of the week will it be?

What would happen to the weekdays if the week had 8 days instead of 7?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: week · What happens: happen, have

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 115 «What day of the week will it be?» 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	_	6 weekdays	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weekdays	det
6	weekdays	weekday	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	15 7	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 had	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the weekdays	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the week				day	instead 7	vn birth-28.2-1 «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 right answer

The same day would come back every 8 days instead of 7

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 days	det
8	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl:unmarked
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 7	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	the same day				day	instead 7	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Christmas would always be on a Sunday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Sunday	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 Sunday	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Sunday	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Sunday	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Sunday	det
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Christmas	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would				a Sunday		always property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Every month would have exactly 4 weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 4	advmod
6	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 weeks	nummod
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

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

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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