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title: Will the year 2100 be a leap year? — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: Will the year 2100 be a leap year? Test 7 · ★★ 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 7 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

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Will the year 2100 be a leap year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** year · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** leap year

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t7:1
# text = Will the year 2100 be a leap year?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	2100	2100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | the year | a leap year |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, because it ends in 00 and does not divide by 400

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t7:o1:1
# text = No, because it ends in 00 and does not divide by 400
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	00	00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | it |  |  | 00 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **divide** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | by 400 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 400=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, because it divides by 4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t7:o2:1
# text = Yes, because it divides by 4
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present | it |  |  |  |  | by 4 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 4=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Yes, because every year ending in 00 is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t7:o3:1
# text = Yes, because every year ending in 00 is
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	00	00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | because every year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | every year *not said here* |  |  | 00 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, because leap years will end in 2050

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t7:o4:1
# text = No, because leap years will end in 2050
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2050	2050	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | future | leap years |  |  | 2050 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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