Test 1 · Trees and forests through the year
A stump has 35 rings. About how old was the tree?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stump · What happens: have, be · To what, where: 35 rings, old tree
This is test 1 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» of the world 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: A stump has 35 rings.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stump | det |
| 2 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 rings | nummod |
| 5 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a stump | 35 rings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
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: About how old was the tree?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 old | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 old | advmod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tree | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 tree | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old tree | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 350 years old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 350 | advmod |
| 2 | 350 | 350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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 2
We cannot tell from rings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 rings | case |
| 6 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | can | We | rings | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
About 3 years old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3 | advmod |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 35 years old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 35 | advmod |
| 2 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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.
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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