Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

What is the stated age of the oak at the commencement of its winter repose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stated age, commencement · What happens: be, state, repose

This is exam question 3 of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 age	det
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 age	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 oak	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oak	det
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 age	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 commencement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 commencement	det
11	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oak	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 winter	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 winter	nmod:poss
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repose	obl
15	repose	repose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 commencement	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the stated age of the oak at the commencement		tree rules
2	state speech: other	participle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	repose	infinitive	the commencement not said here	winter	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

three hundred and sixty-five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sixty	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

three hundred and fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

more years than the sailors could count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 years	amod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 count	nsubj
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 sailors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sailors	det
5	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	nmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 count	aux
7	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	could	more years than the sailors						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

so old that the sailors forgot its first year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forgot	advcl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 forgot	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sailors	det
5	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forgot	nsubj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 year	nmod:poss
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the sailors				year		tree rules

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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