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description: Identify the number of days elapsed between the second and the sixteenth day of the same month. Exam question 3 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Exam question 3 · How long since? Counting back

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Identify the number of days elapsed between the second and the sixteenth day of the same month.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, elapse · **To what, where:** number, days

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:e3:1
# text = Identify the number of days elapsed between the second and the sixteenth day of the same month.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of days and the sixteenth day of the same month |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 2 | **elapse** | participle |  | days and the sixteenth day of the same month *not said here* |  |  |  | between the second | 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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Eighteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:e3:o1:1
# text = Eighteen
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sixteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:e3:o2:1
# text = Sixteen
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:e3:o3:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fourteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:e3:o4:1
# text = Fourteen
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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