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title: Jade: "No leap years for 100 years and we'd be about 25 days out." I… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Jade: "No leap years for 100 years and we'd be about 25 days out." Is that roughly right? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Leap years and 29 February birthdays

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Jade: "No leap years for 100 years and we'd be about 25 days out." Is that roughly right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we, that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 25 days

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jade: "No leap years for 100 years and we'd be about 25 days out."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t8:1
# text = Jade: "No leap years for 100 years and we'd be about 25 days out."
1	Jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | we | 25 days |  |  |  | out *property* | 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:* Is that roughly right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t8:2
# text = Is that roughly right?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | right, roughly *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, about 100 days out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t8:o1:1
# text = No, about 100 days out
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t8:o2:1
# text = No, nothing would change at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, only about 6 hours out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t8:o3:1
# text = No, only about 6 hours out
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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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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Yes, about 24 to 25 days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays:t8:o4:1
# text = Yes, about 24 to 25 days
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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