--- title: Ella counts 47 rings on a tree stump. About how old was the tree whe… — Forests: woodland through the year and… · tree and pragmatics description: Ella counts 47 rings on a tree stump. About how old was the tree when it was cut? Test 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 option; Mov --- [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/t2/) [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/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern… Ella counts 47 rings on a tree stump. About how old was the tree when it was cut? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ella · **What happens:** count, be, cut · **To what, where:** 47 rings, tree stump, tree This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ella counts 47 rings on a tree stump. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t2:1 # text = Ella counts 47 rings on a tree stump. 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 47 47 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 stump stump NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | Ella | 47 rings | | a tree stump | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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. *Sentence 2:* About how old was the tree when it was cut? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t2:2 # text = About how old was the tree when it was cut? 1 About about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | about the old tree | tree rules | | 2 | **cut** | past · passive | | tree | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 94 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t2:o1:1 # text = About 94 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 94 94 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} About 47 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t2:o2:1 # text = About 47 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 47 47 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|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} About 470 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t2:o3:1 # text = About 470 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 470 470 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|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 4 {#o4} About 4 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t2:o4:1 # text = About 4 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|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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