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title: Was the old man proper ancient or just a bit old? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the old man proper ancient or just a bit old? Test 4 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

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Was the old man proper ancient or just a bit old?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** old man

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This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:t4:1
# text = Was the old man proper ancient or just a bit old?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | 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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Two hundred years old, mental

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:t4:o1:1
# text = Two hundred years old, mental
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	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Around a hundred, dead old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:t4:o2:1
# text = Around a hundred, dead old
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ancient, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:t4:o3:1
# text = Ancient, mate
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 old, mental

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1736-pg640-part60:t4:o4:1
# text = Three hundred years old, mental
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	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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