Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…

how old was the princess at her birthday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old princess, birthday

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» 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 princess	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 princess	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 birthday	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birthday	nmod:poss
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 princess	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old princess		princess's birthday			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 · ← Mova's choice

seventeen, pretty old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 seventeen	amod

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

Option 2

twelve, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 twelve	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

ten, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ten	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 ten	discourse

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

eighteen, grown up now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 eighteen	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound:prt
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 grown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle					now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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