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title: Ruby: "Day 24, easy!" Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckl… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby: "Day 24, easy!" Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckle." If a doubling pond fills on day 30, when was it a quarter full? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong

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Ruby: "Day 24, easy!" Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckle." If a doubling pond fills on day 30, when was it a quarter full?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Teacher, doubling pond, pond · **What happens:** be, fill · **To what, where:** quarter

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ruby: "Day 24, easy!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t2:1
# text = Ruby: "Day 24, easy!"
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckle."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t2:2
# text = Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckle."
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	freckle	freckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Teacher |  |  |  | day | tiny *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* If a doubling pond fills on day 30, when was it a quarter full?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t2:3
# text = If a doubling pond fills on day 30, when was it a quarter full?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	doubling	doubling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a doubling pond |  |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | pond | a quarter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Day 15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t2:o1:1
# text = Day 15
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Day 7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t2:o2:1
# text = Day 7
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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Day 28

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t2:o3:1
# text = Day 28
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Day 29

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t2:o4:1
# text = Day 29
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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