--- title: «counted 23 rings on the log, no wait 32. how old was the tree» — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and… · tree and pragmatics description: «counted 23 rings on the log, no wait 32. how old was the tree» Test 4 of lesson 253 «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/t4/) [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/) / [Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/) / t4 # Test 4 · Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees «counted 23 rings on the log, no wait 32. how old was the tree» **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** 23 rings, log, old tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 of lesson 253 «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» 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/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees:t4:1 # text = «counted 23 rings on the log, no wait 32. how old was the tree» 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 csubj _ _ 3 23 23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 11 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** *in a quote* | participle | | 23 rings no wait | | the log | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | the old tree | | | | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} About 32 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees:t4:o1:1 # text = About 32 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 32 32 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 {#o2} About 23 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees:t4:o2:1 # text = About 23 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 23 23 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 55 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees:t4:o3:1 # text = About 55 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 55 55 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 9 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees:t4:o4:1 # text = About 9 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 9 9 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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