Test 13 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

How old was Saphir when his mum died, like, the first time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old Saphir · What happens: be, die · To what, where: old Saphir

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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	4 Saphir	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Saphir	cop
4	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 died	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		old Saphir					tree rules
2	die	past	old Saphir				time		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 · ← Mova's choice

Three years old, when his father wept for the first time in the palace

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wept	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wept	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	nsubj
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	his father				time	in the palace	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in palace=Theme

Option 2

Just over three years old, so he barely remembered her face at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
2	over	over	ADV	_	3 three	advmod
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remembered	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 remembered	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remembered	nsubj
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	10 remembered	advmod
10	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remembered	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 remembered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	he	her face		all		barely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Four years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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