Test 12 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

Mia says 1900 was a leap year cos it divides by 4. true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, 1900, it · What happens: say, be, divide · To what, where: leap year · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 year	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 year	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 year	compound
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 divides	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 divides	nsubj
10	divides	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 year	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 4	case
12	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 divides	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 year	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia		true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	1900	a leap year		tree rules
3	divide	present	it		by 4	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 4=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

No, years ending in 00 need to divide by 400

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
4	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 years	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 00	case
6	00	00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ending	obl
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 divide	mark
9	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 need	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 400	case
11	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 divide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	end	gerund	years not said here	00		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	need	present	years			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	divide not said to happen	to-infinitive	years not said here		by 400	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 400=Co-Theme

Option 2

Yes, and so was every year ending in 00

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 year	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 year	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 year	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 year	cop
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 year	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 00	case
10	00	00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 ending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		every year					tree rules
2	end	gerund	every year not said here			00			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

No, leap years never end in 0

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	compound
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 end	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 end	advmod
6	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 0	case
8	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not end	present	leap years			0			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every year that divides by 4 is a leap year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 year	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 year	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 divides	nsubj
6	divides	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 year	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 4	case
8	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 divides	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 year	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
11	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 year	compound
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	present	every year					by 4	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 4=Co-Theme
2	is a	present	every year	a leap year					tree rules

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