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title: Olga was born on 29 February. How often is her real birthday date on… — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: Olga was born on 29 February. How often is her real birthday date on the calendar? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» 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 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

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Olga was born on 29 February. How often is her real birthday date on the calendar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** bear, be · **To what, where:** Olga, 29, real birthday date, calendar

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» 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/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Olga was born on 29 February.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t3:1
# text = Olga was born on 29 February.
1	Olga	Olga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Olga |  | 29  February |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:* How often is her real birthday date on the calendar?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t3:2
# text = How often is her real birthday date on the calendar?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Olga's real birthday date |  | the calendar |  | often *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Never again after the day she was born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t3:o1:1
# text = Never again after the day she was born
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive | the day *not said here* | she |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Every single year, like everyone else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t3:o2:1
# text = Every single year, like everyone else
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	appos	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only once every ten years or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t3:o3:1
# text = Only once every ten years or so
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Usually once every four years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t3:o4:1
# text = Usually once every four years
1	Usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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