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title: Jacob counts sleeps from 28 March to 3 April as "3 April minus 28 Ma… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: Jacob counts sleeps from 28 March to 3 April as "3 April minus 28 March, that's minus 25, eh?" What's the real answer? Test 5 · ★★ 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 o
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"

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Jacob counts sleeps from 28 March to 3 April as "3 April minus 28 March, that's minus 25, eh?" What's the real answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jacob, that, real answer · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** sleeps, 28, minus 25

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jacob counts sleeps from 28 March to 3 April as "3 April minus 28 March, that's minus 25, eh?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t5:1
# text = Jacob counts sleeps from 28 March to 3 April as "3 April minus 28 March, that's minus 25, eh?"
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sleeps	sleep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
6	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
9	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	minus	minus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | Jacob | sleeps |  | 28  March to 3 | april; march |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | minus 25 |  |  |  |  | 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 real answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t5:2
# text = What's the real 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	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 real answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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6 sleeps, counting to the end of March first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t5:o1:1
# text = 6 sleeps, counting to the end of March first
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sleeps	sleep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund | 6 sleeps *not said here* |  |  |  | to the end of March | first *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to end=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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25 sleeps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t5:o2:1
# text = 25 sleeps
1	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sleeps	sleep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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31 sleeps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t5:o3:1
# text = 31 sleeps
1	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sleeps	sleep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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3 sleeps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t5:o4:1
# text = 3 sleeps
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sleeps	sleep	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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**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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