Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Be honest, how old did the little storks reckon that tiny kid was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little storks, tiny kid · What happens: be, reckon

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reckon	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 honest	conj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reckon	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storks	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 storks	amod
9	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reckon	nsubj
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 was	mark
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kid	amod
13	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reckon	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive		honest property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	reckon	past · do-support	the little storks		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	past	tiny kid		vn exist-47.1 «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

About fifty, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 fifty	advmod
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 think	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fifty	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	fifty						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Very old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten, maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ten	punct
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	1 Ten	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

At least a hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 hundred	nmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	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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