--- title: Ascertain the approximate age of a tree whose felled trunk exhibits… — Forests: woodland through the year and… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the approximate age of a tree whose felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings. Exam question 2 of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Forests: woodland through the year and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern… Ascertain the approximate age of a tree whose felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, tree · **What happens:** ascertain, fell, exhibit · **To what, where:** approximate age This is exam question 2 of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the approximate age of a tree whose felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 felled fell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 10 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 exhibits exhibit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 annual annual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate age of a tree a tree felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings's felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic | | 2 | **fell** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **exhibit** | | a tree a tree felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings's felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings | | | | | | nom exhibit «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Approximately six hundred years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:e2:o1:1 # text = Approximately six hundred years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Approximately six years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:e2:o2:1 # text = Approximately six years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Approximately one hundred and twenty years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:e2:o3:1 # text = Approximately one hundred and twenty years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Approximately sixty years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:e2:o4:1 # text = Approximately sixty years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 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. 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