Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

State the number of years the oak had existed prior to his fall.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, oak · What happens: state, exist · To what, where: number

This is exam question 3 of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 existed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oak	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 existed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 existed	aux
9	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 number	acl:relcl
10	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 fall	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 prior	fixed
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fall	nmod:poss
13	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 existed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	exist	past · perfect	the oak	the number not said here			year	prior oak's fall	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

Two hundred and ninety-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ninety	cc
4	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ninety	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three hundred and sixty-five

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	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 five	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 five	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

Three hundred and sixty-five full years of sun and rain

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	8 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 five	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 five	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sun	case
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 years	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rain	cc
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sun	conj

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

Option 4

Almost four hundred years of storms and sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 storms	case
6	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 years	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sunshine	cc
8	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 storms	conj

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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