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description: Count them: a trunk is 2 metres around and grows about 2.5 centimetres a year. About how old might it be? Test 4 of lesson 339 «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 4 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

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Count them: a trunk is 2 metres around and grows about 2.5 centimetres a year. About how old might it be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, trunk · **What happens:** count, be, grow · **To what, where:** them, 2 metres, 2.5 centimetres

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This is test 4 of lesson 339 «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» 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/339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a trunk is 2 metres around and grows about 2.5 centimetres a year.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart:t4:1
# text = Count them: a trunk is 2 metres around and grows about 2.5 centimetres a year.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	2.5	2.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | around *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a trunk | 2 metres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | you *not said here* | 2.5 centimetres |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* About how old might it be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart:t4:2
# text = About how old might it be?
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | might | trunk |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 2 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart:t4:o1:1
# text = About 2 years
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 8 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart:t4:o2:1
# text = About 8 years
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 800 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart:t4:o3:1
# text = About 800 years
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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About 80 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart:t4:o4:1
# text = About 80 years
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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