Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

so like, how old was the prince?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
2	like	like	INTJ	_	5 old	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct

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

nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

about sixteen years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 sixteen	advmod
2	sixteen	sixteen	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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

seventeen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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