Test 7 · ★ · Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three frien…

how old was the narrator when he finally got tall, like, actual growth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old narrator · What happens: be, get · To what, where: old narrator, actual growth

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 831 «Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three friends swear to be brothers and sister for life, and a secret love is confessed» 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 narrator	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 narrator	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	9 got	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 growth	punct
14	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 growth	amod
15	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old narrator					tree rules
2	get	past	the old narrator	actual growth				finally, tall property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Years went by, he's a stout strong youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	8 stout	case
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stout	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stout	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stout	det
8	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	obl
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 youth	amod
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stout	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Years						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	he					stout property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Years went by, he's a stout strong youth, and by sixteen he was taller than everyone

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 youth	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 youth	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 youth	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stout	det
8	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 youth	nsubj
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 youth	amod
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taller	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taller	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 sixteen	case
14	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 taller	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taller	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taller	cop
17	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 went	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 everyone	case
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go by	past	Years			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	he	strong youth		tree rules
3	is	past	he		by sixteen; than everyone; tall property	tree rules

Option 3

When he was fourteen, I guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fourteen	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fourteen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fourteen	cop
4	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 guess	nsubj
7	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fourteen	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	fourteen					tree rules
2	guess	present	I						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Years went by, he's a stout strong youth who finally hit his growth spurt in the spring

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	8 stout	case
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stout	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stout	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stout	det
8	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	obl
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 youth	amod
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stout	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hit	nsubj
12	finally	finally	ADV	_	13 hit	advmod
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 youth	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 spurt	nmod:poss
15	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spurt	compound
16	spurt	spurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 spring	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spring	det
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Years				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	he			stout property	tree rules
3	hit	past	strong youth	his growth spurt	spring	finally property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spurt=Co-Theme
4	spurt		his = he				nom spurt «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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