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title: If you had a birthday every Venus year, would you get more or fewer… — Venus · tree and pragmatics
description: If you had a birthday every Venus year, would you get more or fewer birthdays than days? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 4 «Venus» of the space 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 7 · ★ · Venus

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If you had a birthday every Venus year, would you get more or fewer birthdays than days?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, get · **To what, where:** birthday, more birthdays

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 4 «Venus» of the space 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/space/4-venus/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:4-venus:t7:1
# text = If you had a birthday every Venus year, would you get more or fewer birthdays than days?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
16	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | you | a birthday |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | would | you | more birthdays |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer birthday=Stimulus |

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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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Fewer birthdays, because its year is much longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:4-venus:t7:o1:1
# text = Fewer birthdays, because its year is much longer
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | year | long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The same number, they are equal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:4-venus:t7:o2:1
# text = The same number, they are equal
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the same number |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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More birthdays, because its year is shorter than its day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:4-venus:t7:o3:1
# text = More birthdays, because its year is shorter than its day
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | More birthdays |  |  |  | day | short *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No birthdays, Venus has no year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:4-venus:t7:o4:1
# text = No birthdays, Venus has no year
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | no birthdays |  |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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