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title: Harvey, Monday morning: "Weekend's like a million days away." How ma… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics
description: Harvey, Monday morning: "Weekend's like a million days away." How many days until the weekend starts on Saturday? Test 2 of lesson 111 «Days, weeks and months» 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 
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# Test 2 · Days, weeks and months

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Harvey, Monday morning: "Weekend's like a million days away." How many days until the weekend starts on Saturday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Weekend · **What happens:** be, start

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This is test 2 of lesson 111 «Days, weeks and months» of the world 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/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Harvey, Monday morning: "Weekend's like a million days away."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t2:1
# text = Harvey, Monday morning: "Weekend's like a million days away."
1	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Weekend |  |  |  | like million days |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many days until the weekend starts on Saturday?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t2:2
# text = How many days until the weekend starts on Saturday?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | the weekend |  |  |  | day; saturday |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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1,000,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t2:o1:1
# text = 1,000,000
1	1,000,000	1,000,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t2:o2:1
# text = 7
1	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t2:o3:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t2:o4:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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