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Test 3 · Getting old: how long people and animals live

Finn moans, «TWO YEARS? my shoes are older than that!» What is the wise reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finn, shoes, wise reply · What happens: moan, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 52 «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics 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: Finn moans, «TWO YEARS? my shoes are older than that!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moans	nsubj
2	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 YEARS	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 YEARS	punct
5	TWO	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 YEARS	nummod
6	YEARS	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 moans	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 older	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shoes	nmod:poss
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 older	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 older	cop
11	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 moans	parataxis
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 older	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 older	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Finn				year		vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	my shoes					than that; 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.

Sentence 2: What is the wise reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Then a hamster isn't worth looking after properly at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 worth	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hamster	det
3	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worth	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 worth	advmod
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 worth	csubj
8	after	after	ADP	_	7 looking	compound:prt
9	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 looking	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a hamster				then	worth property	tree rules
2	look after	gerund				all		properly property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A short life can still be happy, so make the time count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 life	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 life	amod
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happy	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 happy	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 happy	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 happy	cop
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 make	advmod
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 happy	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	a short life				still	happy property	tree rules
2	make	infinitive	a short life not said here	count			time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset count=Product

Option 3

Buy new shoes so the hamster seems older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoes	amod
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Buy	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 seems	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hamster	det
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seems	nsubj
7	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Buy	advcl
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 seems	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	new shoes					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	seem	present	the hamster					old property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Ask the shop for a hamster that lives for twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hamster	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hamster	det
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hamster	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the shop				for a hamster	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shop=Recipient
2	live	present	a hamster				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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