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title: uk friend's party on 3/4, is that march? — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: uk friend's party on 3/4, is that march? Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 14 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

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uk friend's party on 3/4, is that march?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** party · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** march

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This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t14:1
# text = uk friend's party on 3/4, is that march?
1	uk	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	3/4	3/4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | uk friend's party on 3/4 | that march |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, it's March 4 everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t14:o1:1
# text = Yes, it's March 4 everywhere
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | 4 |  |  | march | everywhere *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, in the UK 3/4 means 3 April

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t14:o2:1
# text = No, in the UK 3/4 means 3 April
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	3/4	3/4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | 3/4 |  |  |  | april | in the UK | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in uk=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's the 34th day of the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t14:o3:1
# text = It's the 34th day of the year
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	34th	34th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the 34th day |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It means 4 March in the UK

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t14:o4:1
# text = It means 4 March in the UK
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It |  |  |  | march | in the UK | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in uk=Attribute |

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**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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