gh-99535: Add test for inheritance of annotations and update documentation (#99990)

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diff --git a/Doc/howto/annotations.rst b/Doc/howto/annotations.rst
index 2bc2f2d..4720690 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/annotations.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/annotations.rst
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ Accessing The Annotations Dict Of An Object In Python 3.10 And Newer
   newer is to call :func:`getattr` with three arguments,
   for example ``getattr(o, '__annotations__', None)``.
 
+  Before Python 3.10, accessing ``__annotations__`` on a class that
+  defines no annotations but that has a parent class with
+  annotations would return the parent's ``__annotations__``.
+  In Python 3.10 and newer, the child class's annotations
+  will be an empty dict instead.
+
 
 Accessing The Annotations Dict Of An Object In Python 3.9 And Older
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