Test 14 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

how old was the kid when they got busted?

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

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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 kid	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kid	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 busted	nsubj:pass
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 busted	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 busted	nsubj
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 busted	aux:pass
9	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 busted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old kid					tree rules
2	bust	past · passive		the old kid					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

old enough to walk and talk well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 old	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 walk	mark
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 old	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 talk	cc
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 walk	conj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	infinitive						well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

five years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	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 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.

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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