How could the score be higher than the "Daily Goal" points?

Every so often, I see that the “Score” field under “Stats” has a higher value than the “Points” field under “Daily Goal”. Here you can see that the “Score” is 104, while the points are shown as 88:

However, one of the sentences was carried over into in the next round. I think I had gotten it right the first time, but I also got it right the second time. After that, the points seemed to be correct:

Any idea how this could happen?

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