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title: What is the approximate age of the little boy who sits with Uncle Re… — Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle R… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the approximate age of the little boy who sits with Uncle Remus? Exam question 2 of lesson 567 «Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, part 3: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of a dinner» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Exam question 2 · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

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What is the approximate age of the little boy who sits with Uncle Remus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** approximate age, little boy · **What happens:** be, sit

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 567 «Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, part 3: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of a dinner» 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/567-pg2306-part3/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e2:1
# text = What is the approximate age of the little boy who sits with Uncle Remus?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the approximate age of the little boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | the little boy |  |  |  |  | with Uncle Remus | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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somewhere around seven or eight years of age, I think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e2:o1:1
# text = somewhere around seven or eight years of age, I think
1	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  | year |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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seven years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e2:o2:1
# text = seven years
1	seven	seven	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 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
eight years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e2:o3:1
# text = eight years
1	eight	eight	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 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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about seven years old, though he looked a bit older

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e2:o4:1
# text = about seven years old, though he looked a bit older
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	seven	seven	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	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | he |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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