Test 9 · ★★ · When a parent has died
★★★ Freya-Lou was 6 months old when her mum died. She is 9 now. How many years has it been, rounded to the nearest half year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, mum, many years · What happens: be, die, have, round · To what, where: 9, it
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 518 «When a parent has died» of the everyday 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ Freya-Lou was 6 months old when her mum died.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 old | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Freya | case |
| 4 | Freya | Freya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lou | punct |
| 6 | Lou | Lou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 old | cop |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 months | nummod |
| 9 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 old | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 died | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mum | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 old | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ★ ★ Freya and Lou | month | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | past | Lou's mum | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
Sentence 2: She is 9 now.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 9 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 9 | cop |
| 3 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 9 | advmod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 9 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | mum | 9 | now | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How many years has it been, rounded to the nearest half year?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rounded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 rounded | aux:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rounded | punct |
| 8 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 11 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 year | amod |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 year | compound |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rounded | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | many years | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | round | participle · passive | it | year | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
8 and a half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 half | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 1 8 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
9 and a half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 half | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 1 9 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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