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title: how old was the hazel-nut kid when he left home? — Household Tales, The Twins and the Wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: how old was the hazel-nut kid when he left home? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

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how old was the hazel-nut kid when he left home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** be, leave · **To what, where:** old hazel nut kid

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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/1727-pg640-part51/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t8:1
# text = how old was the hazel-nut kid when he left home?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old hazel nut kid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past | kid |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t8:o1:1
# text = twenty
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t8:o2:1
# text = ten
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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eighteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t8:o3:1
# text = eighteen
1	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t8:o4:1
# text = five
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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