--- title: A boy in Florida writes his birthday, 12 July, as 7/12. His cousin i… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Florida writes his birthday, 12 July, as 7/12. His cousin in England reads it as what date? 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His cousin in England reads it as what date? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, cousin · **What happens:** write, read · **To what, where:** birthday This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A boy in Florida writes his birthday, 12 July, as 7/12. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t9:1 # text = A boy in Florida writes his birthday, 12 July, as 7/12. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 appos _ _ 10 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 7/12 7/12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | a boy in Florida | boy's birthday | | | | as 7/12 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent birthday=Result as 7/12=Attribute | 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:* His cousin in England reads it as what date? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t9:2 # text = His cousin in England reads it as what date? 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | boy's cousin in England | birthday | | | | as date | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as date=Attribute | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 7 July ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t9:o1:1 # text = 7 July 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 12 December ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t9:o2:1 # text = 12 December 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 12 July ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t9:o3:1 # text = 12 July 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 7 December ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t9:o4:1 # text = 7 December 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` 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. 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