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title: State the number of years for which the first old man reports having… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of years for which the first old man reports having lived without the company of any human being apart from the Irishman. Exam question 3 of lesson 1736 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, part 60: the Irishman learns from an Eagle where the Princess is» of the
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# Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

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State the number of years for which the first old man reports having lived without the company of any human being apart from the Irishman.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, first old man · **What happens:** state, report, have, live, be · **To what, where:** number

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1736 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, part 60: the Irishman learns from an Eagle where the Princess is» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1736-pg640-part60/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:e3:1
# text = State the number of years for which the first old man reports having lived without the company of any human being apart from the Irishman.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reports	report	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	ccomp	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
20	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
22	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of years |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **report** | present | the first old man |  |  |  | for years |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the first old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | participle | the first old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without the company | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of any human Irishman; apart *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three thousand years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:e3:o1:1
# text = Three thousand years
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Two hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:e3:o2:1
# text = Two hundred years
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Fifty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:e3:o3:1
# text = Fifty years
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	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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Three hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:e3:o4:1
# text = Three hundred years
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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**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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