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title: Grandad says "Happy trip round the Sun!" on Noah's 10th birthday. Why? — The Moon's month and the year round th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandad says "Happy trip round the Sun!" on Noah's 10th birthday. Why? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 119 «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» 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 3 · ★ · The Moon's month and the year round the Sun

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Grandad says "Happy trip round the Sun!" on Noah's 10th birthday. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandad · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Happy trip, 10th birthday · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 119 «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» 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/119-moon-month-and-year/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandad says "Happy trip round the Sun!" on Noah's 10th birthday.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:119-moon-month-and-year:t3:1
# text = Grandad says "Happy trip round the Sun!" on Noah's 10th birthday.
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	10th	10th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandad | Happy trip |  | Noah's 10th birthday |  | round the Sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent trip=Topic |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:119-moon-month-and-year:t3:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The Sun goes round Noah on his birthday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:119-moon-month-and-year:t3:o1:1
# text = The Sun goes round Noah on his birthday
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the Sun |  |  | Sun's birthday |  | round Noah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round noah=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Each birthday marks one more full orbit of the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:119-moon-month-and-year:t3:o2:1
# text = Each birthday marks one more full orbit of the Sun
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | present | each birthday | one more full orbit of the Sun |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent orbit=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Noah went to space on a school trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:119-moon-month-and-year:t3:o3:1
# text = Noah went to space on a school trip
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Noah |  |  | a school trip |  | to space | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to space=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Birthdays are the days when the Moon goes once round the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:119-moon-month-and-year:t3:o4:1
# text = Birthdays are the days when the Moon goes once round the Sun
1	Birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Birthdays | the days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | the Moon |  |  | the Sun |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial\_Location |

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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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