---
title: What would happen to Ruby's and her brother's ages if both had a bir… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to Ruby's and her brother's ages if both had a birthday tomorrow? Test 9 · ★★ 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[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/t9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / t9

# Test 9 · ★★ · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would happen to Ruby's and her brother's ages if both had a birthday tomorrow?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** both · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** Ruby, birthday

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t9:1
# text = What would happen to Ruby's and her brother's ages if both had a birthday tomorrow?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  | Ruby and her brother's ages |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | both | a birthday |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Both would go up by 1, and the gap would stay 3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t9:o1:1
# text = Both would go up by 1, and the gap would stay 3
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | would | Both |  |  |  |  | by 1 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **stay** | would | the gap | 3 |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme 3=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The gap would become 4 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t9:o2:1
# text = The gap would become 4 years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the gap | 4 years |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only Ruby's age would go up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t9:o3:1
# text = Only Ruby's age would go up
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | would | Ruby's age |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The gap would become 2 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:t9:o4:1
# text = The gap would become 2 years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the gap | 2 years |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/t8/)
- next →: [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/t10/)
- ↑ back to [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/)