Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…

How old was the baby, like a newborn?

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

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1535 «Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans» 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 baby	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 baby	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 newborn	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 newborn	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 newborn	det
9	newborn	newborn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baby	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 baby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old baby and a newborn					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

Two or three months old, still in the cradle and not yet walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cradle	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cradle	punct
7	still	still	ADV	_	10 cradle	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cradle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cradle	det
10	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 walking	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 walking	advmod
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 walking	advmod
14	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 cradle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	gerund					yet		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

About a year old, maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	obl:unmarked
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	4 old	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two or three months old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Like one or two weeks old, a tiny little infant still feeding from its nurse

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 weeks	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	conj
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 infant	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 infant	det
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 infant	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 infant	amod
11	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 feeding	advmod
13	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 infant	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 nurse	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nurse	nmod:poss
16	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feeding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund	a tiny little infant not said here			infant's nurse	still		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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