Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

how old was the oak, like for real?

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

This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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 oak	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 oak	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oak	det
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 real	case
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oak	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 oak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old oak					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

three hundred and sixty

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	_	4 sixty	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 2

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.

Option 3

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 4 · ✓ 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.

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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