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title: ngl, how old was the oldest brother? — Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, how old was the oldest brother? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1467 «Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to lose their sons in the forest, and Little Thumb leaves a trail of white pebbles» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to los…

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ngl, how old was the oldest brother?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** oldest brother

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1467 «Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to lose their sons in the forest, and Little Thumb leaves a trail of white pebbles» of the books 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/books/1467-pg503-part54/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1467-pg503-part54:t9:1
# text = ngl, how old was the oldest brother?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ngl | the oldest brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Fifteen, a total grown-up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1467-pg503-part54:t9:o1:1
# text = Fifteen, a total grown-up
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	compound	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ten, like, just a bit older than Little Thumb's age... no, ten

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1467-pg503-part54:t9:o2:1
# text = Ten, like, just a bit older than Little Thumb's age... no, ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve, so way older than everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1467-pg503-part54:t9:o3:1
# text = Twelve, so way older than everyone
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven, same as Little Thumb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1467-pg503-part54:t9:o4:1
# text = Seven, same as Little Thumb
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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**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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