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Exam question 3 · Time zones and the calendar

It is given that years ending in two zeros are leap years only if divisible by four hundred. Ascertain which of the following was a leap year.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: years, you · What happens: give, end, be, ascertain, follow · To what, where: It, two zeros, leap years

This is exam question 3 of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that years ending in two zeros are leap years only if divisible by four hundred.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 years	mark
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 years	nsubj
6	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 years	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 zeros	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 zeros	nummod
9	zeros	zero	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ending	obl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 years	cop
11	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	compound
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	advcl
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 divisible	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 divisible	mark
15	divisible	divisible	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 hundred	case
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hundred	compound
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 given	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It				by four hundred; divisible obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	end	gerund	years not said here			two zeros			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	present	years	leap years					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: Ascertain which of the following was a leap year.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Ascertain	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 year	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
5	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 year	case
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 year	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 year	compound
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 which	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past					of the leap year		tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The year 2100

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	2100	2100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 year	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The year 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 year	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The year 1900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 year	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The year 1800

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	1800	1800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 year	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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