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Test 4 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

Count them: a trunk is 2 metres around and grows about 2.5 centimetres a year. About how old might it be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, trunk · What happens: count, be, grow · To what, where: them, 2 metres, 2.5 centimetres

This is test 4 of lesson 339 «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» of the biology 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Count them: a trunk is 2 metres around and grows about 2.5 centimetres a year.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 metres	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 metres	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 metres	cop
7	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 metres	nummod
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 around	obl:unmarked
9	around	around	ADV	_	1 Count	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grows	cc
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 2.5	advmod
13	2.5	2.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 centimetres	nummod
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grows	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they				around property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is a	present	a trunk	2 metres					tree rules
3	grow	present	you not said here	2.5 centimetres			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: About how old might it be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	3 old	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 old	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 old	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	might	trunk						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About 2 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 2	advmod
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

About 8 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 8	advmod
2	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

About 800 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 800	advmod
2	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

About 80 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 80	advmod
2	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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