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title: A Scottish nan: "Dinnae fash, bairn, ye ken the rhyme: thirty days h… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics
description: A Scottish nan: "Dinnae fash, bairn, ye ken the rhyme: thirty days hath September." ("Dinnae fash" means don't worry.) Which month in her rhyme has 30 days? Test 6 of lesson 111 «Days, weeks and months» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 6 · Days, weeks and months

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A Scottish nan: "Dinnae fash, bairn, ye ken the rhyme: thirty days hath September." ("Dinnae fash" means don't worry.) Which month in her rhyme has 30 days?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Scottish nan, ye, month, nan · **What happens:** fash, ken, have, mean, not worry, rhyme · **To what, where:** bairn, rhyme · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Scottish nan: "Dinnae fash, bairn, ye ken the rhyme: thirty days hath September."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t6:1
# text = A Scottish nan: "Dinnae fash, bairn, ye ken the rhyme: thirty days hath September."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Dinnae	Dinnae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
7	fash	fash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ken	ken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fash** *in a quote* | infinitive | a Scottish nan *not said here* | bairn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ken** *in a quote* | present | ye | the rhyme |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a Scottish nan |  |  |  | september |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:* ("Dinnae fash" means don't worry.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t6:2
# text = ("Dinnae fash" means don't worry.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dinnae	Dinnae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	discourse	_	_
4	fash	fash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fash** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **worry** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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*Sentence 3:* Which month in her rhyme has 30 days?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t6:3
# text = Which month in her rhyme has 30 days?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | which month in nan's rhyme |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rhyme** |  | nan |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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October

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t6:o1:1
# text = October
1	October	October	PROPN	NNP	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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December

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t6:o2:1
# text = December
1	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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August

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t6:o3:1
# text = August
1	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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September

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:111-days-weeks-and-months:t6:o4:1
# text = September
1	September	September	PROPN	NNP	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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