--- title: A person born in the year 20 BC attains a birthday in AD 20. State t… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A person born in the year 20 BC attains a birthday in AD 20. State the age then attained, there being no year zero. 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State the age then attained, there being no year zero. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** person, you · **What happens:** bear, attain, state, be · **To what, where:** 20, birthday, AD, age, year This is exam question 3 of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A person born in the year 20 BC attains a birthday in AD 20. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e3:1 # text = A person born in the year 20 BC attains a birthday in AD 20. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 8 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 attains attain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | a person *not said here* | 20 BC | | | year | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **attain** | present | a person | a birthday | | AD | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* State the age then attained, there being no year zero. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e3:2 # text = State the age then attained, there being no year zero. 1 State state VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 attained attain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 zero zero NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the age | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent age=Topic | | 2 | **attain** | past | you *not said here* | | | | then | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | gerund | | no year | | there | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Thirty-nine ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e3:o1:1 # text = Thirty-nine 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e3:o2:1 # text = Twenty 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Forty ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e3:o3:1 # text = Forty 1 Forty forty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Forty-one ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e3:o4:1 # text = Forty-one 1 Forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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