Test 4 · ★ · How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope…

What would happen if we had kept Caesar's calendar, unchanged, for another 1,300 years?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: calendar

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 116 «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 kept	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 calendar	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Caesar	case
10	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unchanged	punct
12	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 calendar	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 years	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 years	det
16	1,300	1,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	we	Caesar's calendar					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, because Caesar's year was exactly right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 right	mark
4	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 year	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Caesar	case
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 right	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 right	cop
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 right	advmod
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Caesar's year					exactly, right property	tree rules

Option 2

Christmas would land right in the middle of a hot summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 land	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 land	aux
3	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	3 land	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 summer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 summer	det
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 summer	amod
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	would	Christmas			the middle of a hot summer		right property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in middle=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would slip about 10 more days away from the seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slip	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 slip	aux
3	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 10	advmod
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 away	obl:unmarked
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 slip	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 seasons	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seasons	det
11	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	would	It					away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

It would slip by only about 10 minutes in all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slip	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 slip	aux
3	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 10	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 10	advmod
7	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slip	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 slip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	would	It				minute	in all	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in all=Attribute

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