Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

how old was rudy when everyone called him handsome?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: be, call · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 855 «Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the uncle, and Rudy becomes the family's hunter and guide» 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	4 rudy	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rudy	cop
4	rudy	rudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 called	advmod
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rudy	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	obj
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 called	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rudy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						rudy property	tree rules
2	call	past	everyone		him = he			handsome property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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

about twenty years old at the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	obl:unmarked
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	obl

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

Option 2

age twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 age	flat

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

Option 3

nineteen years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nineteen	nineteen	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

twenty years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	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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