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title: Joe: "Is there a 29 February in every school year?" What's the answer? — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Joe: "Is there a 29 February in every school year?" What's the answer? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 112 «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Leap years and 29 February birthdays

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Joe: "Is there a 29 February in every school year?" What's the answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Joe, answer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 29 February

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 112 «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» 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/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Joe: "Is there a 29 February in every school year?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t7:1
# text = Joe: "Is there a 29 February in every school year?"
1	Joe	Joe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Joe | a 29 February |  |  | year |  | 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:* What's the answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t7:2
# text = What's the answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, school years never contain a 29 February

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t7:o1:1
# text = No, school years never contain a 29 February
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **contain** | present | school years |  |  |  | february |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, every school year has one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t7:o2:1
# text = Yes, every school year has one
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every school year | one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, only in one school year out of every 4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t7:o3:1
# text = No, only in one school year out of every 4
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only in Scotland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only in Scotland
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Scotland	Scotland	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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