Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

Bet, how old was the boy they buried?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bet, they · What happens: be, bury · To what, where: boy

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 178 «Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea, then frees a boy from an underground tomb» 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	Bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bet	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 buried	nsubj
9	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bet	the boy					tree rules
2	bury	past	they	the boy not said here					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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.

The options

Option 1

Sixteen or seventeen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 seventeen	cc
3	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Sixteen	conj

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

Option 2

Twelve or thirteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 thirteen	cc
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twelve	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fourteen or fifteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 fifteen	cc
3	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fourteen	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

About fourteen or fifteen years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 fourteen	advmod
2	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 fifteen	cc
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fourteen	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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