--- title: A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics description: A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2026. State the year of birth. Exam question 3 of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2026. State the year of birth. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** celebrate · **To what, where:** eightieth anniversary This is exam question 3 of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2026. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e3:1 # text = A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2026. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 celebrates celebrate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 eightieth eightieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **celebrate** | present | a person | the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniversary=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* State the year of birth. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e3:2 # text = State the year of birth. 1 State state NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 1956 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e3:o1:1 # text = 1956 1 1956 1956 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 2106 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e3:o2:1 # text = 2106 1 2106 2106 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 1946 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e3:o3:1 # text = 1946 1 1946 1946 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 1936 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e3:o4:1 # text = 1936 1 1936 1936 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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