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title: A Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!" Ell… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: A Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!" Ellie's birthday is 10 January. When is the half-birthday cake? Test 7 · ★★ 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
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"

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A Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!" Ellie's birthday is 10 January. When is the half-birthday cake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** birthday, birthday cake · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 10 January

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t7:1
# text = A Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!"
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Bostin	Bostin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bab	bab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Ellie's birthday is 10 January.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t7:2
# text = Ellie's birthday is 10 January.
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ellie's birthday | 10 January |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* When is the half-birthday cake?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t7:3
# text = When is the half-birthday cake?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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10 June

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t7:o1:1
# text = 10 June
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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5 July

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t7:o2:1
# text = 5 July
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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

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10 July

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t7:o3:1
# text = 10 July
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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10 December

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t7:o4:1
# text = 10 December
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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