--- title: If the year were exactly 365 days long, what would we do with leap y… — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics description: If the year were exactly 365 days long, what would we do with leap years? Test 4 · ★★ 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/t4/) [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/) / [Time zones and the calendar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar If the year were exactly 365 days long, what would we do with leap years? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** year, we · **What happens:** be, do This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t4:1 # text = If the year were exactly 365 days long, what would we do with leap years? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 365 365 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the year | | | | day | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | would | we | | | | year | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} We would not need them ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t4:o1:1 # text = We would not need them 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **need** | would | We | them *= they* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} We would need one every year ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t4:o2:1 # text = We would need one every year 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | would | We | one | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} We would need one every hundred years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t4:o3:1 # text = We would need one every hundred years 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | would | We | one | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} We would need two each year ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t4:o4:1 # text = We would need two each year 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | would | We | two | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot two=Theme | **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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