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description: Whereas refuse is collected upon alternate Thursdays and was last collected upon the fifth, ascertain the date of the next collection within the same month. Exam question 3 of lesson 111 «Days, weeks and months» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 3 · Days, weeks and months

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Whereas refuse is collected upon alternate Thursdays and was last collected upon the fifth, ascertain the date of the next collection within the same month.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** collect, ascertain · **To what, where:** date

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 111 «Days, weeks and months» 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/111-days-weeks-and-months/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:e3:1
# text = Whereas refuse is collected upon alternate Thursdays and was last collected upon the fifth, ascertain the date of the next collection within the same month.
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	refuse	refuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	alternate	alternate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Thursdays	thursday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	last	last	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | whereas refuse; upon alternate Thursdays | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 2 | **collect** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the fifth; last *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **ascertain** | infinitive |  | the date of the next collection |  |  | month |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The nineteenth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:e3:o1:1
# text = The nineteenth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nineteenth	nineteenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The twelfth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:e3:o2:1
# text = The twelfth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The twenty-sixth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:e3:o3:1
# text = The twenty-sixth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The seventh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:e3:o4:1
# text = The seventh
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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