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title: Tom on 18 December, wee and excited: "Seven sleeps or eight?" Christ… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: Tom on 18 December, wee and excited: "Seven sleeps or eight?" Christmas is the 25th. Test 10 · ★★ 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"

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Tom on 18 December, wee and excited: "Seven sleeps or eight?" Christmas is the 25th.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Christmas · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Tom on 18 December, wee and excited: "Seven sleeps or eight?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t10:1
# text = Tom on 18 December, wee and excited: "Seven sleeps or eight?"
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	sleeps	sleep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Christmas is the 25th.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t10:2
# text = Christmas is the 25th.
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	25th	25th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	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 | Christmas |  |  |  |  | 25th *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t10:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t10: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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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t10:o3:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	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 {#o4}

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25

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t10:o4:1
# text = 25
1	25	25	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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