--- title: Oi, how old was the sister talking at the window, like? — Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beaut… · tree and pragmatics description: Oi, how old was the sister talking at the window, like? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1640-pg5615-part29/t11/) [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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beaut…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1640-pg5615-part29/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t… Oi, how old was the sister talking at the window, like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi, sister · **What happens:** be, talk · **To what, where:** sister, window This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» 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/1640-pg5615-part29/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t11:1 # text = Oi, how old was the sister talking at the window, like? 1 Oi oi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 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 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Oi | the sister | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | the sister *not said here* | | | the window | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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} Fifteen years old and proud ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t11:o1:1 # text = Fifteen years old and proud 1 Fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twelve ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t11:o2:1 # text = Twelve 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Fifteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t11:o3:1 # text = Fifteen 1 Fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t11:o4:1 # text = Nine 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 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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