Test 4 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

If the year were exactly 365 days long, what would we do with leap years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: year, we · What happens: be, do

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 long	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 365	advmod
6	365	365	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 do	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 years	compound
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the year				day	long property	tree rules
2	do	would	we				year		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

We would not need them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	would	We	them = they					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 2

We would need one every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 need	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	We	one			year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 3

We would need one every hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 need	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	We	one			year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 4

We would need two each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 need	obj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	We	two			year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot two=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/t4/