Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Frog, part 47: the frog exposes the king'…

how old was the princess, roughly, like nine?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old princess

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1181 «Fairy Tales, The Frog, part 47: the frog exposes the king's plan, and the king defeats the Lion Fairy» of the books 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princess	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 princess	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
7	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	10 nine	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 nine	case
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 princess	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old princess					tree rules

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

Option 1

Nah, she's twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 twelve	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 twelve	cop
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	twelve					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, around eight, and the cleverest child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 eight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eight	punct
3	around	around	ADV	_	4 eight	advmod
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eight	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 child	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eight	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, nearly nine, and more beautiful than all the kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nine	punct
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 nine	advmod
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beautiful	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beautiful	cc
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 beautiful	advmod
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nine	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 kids	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 kids	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kids	det
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beautiful	obl

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

Option 4

Nah, she's about twelve and quite tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 twelve	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 twelve	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 twelve	advmod
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tall	cc
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 tall	advmod
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 twelve	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	twelve				about property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

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