Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

so the old house was like three hundred years old innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old house · What happens: be · To what, where: old innit

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 298 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely old man and a gift» 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	so	so	ADV	_	11 innit	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 innit	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 innit	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 innit	obl
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 innit	amod
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old house	old innit			year		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, ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, maybe a hundred years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, about two hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, almost three hundred years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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