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title: Is Sigurd's sis Lineik a year younger, or what? — Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is Sigurd's sis Lineik a year younger, or what? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 697 «Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress p…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Is Sigurd's sis Lineik a year younger, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sis

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 697 «Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen» 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/697-pg2435-part37/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:697-pg2435-part37:t5:1
# text = Is Sigurd's sis Lineik a year younger, or what?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Sigurd's sis |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they are a year apart, not twins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:697-pg2435-part37:t5:o1:1
# text = Nah, they are a year apart, not twins
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | a year |  |  |  | apart *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she's a year younger, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:697-pg2435-part37:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, she's a year younger, innit
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  | year | young *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, Lineik is a year younger than Sigurd, the queen told everyone in court

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:697-pg2435-part37:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, Lineik is a year younger than Sigurd, the queen told everyone in court
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Lineik |  |  |  | year | than Sigurd; young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the queen |  | everyone | court |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they're a year apart, not twins, and Lineik is the older one by a bit

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:697-pg2435-part37:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, they're a year apart, not twins, and Lineik is the older one by a bit
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | a year |  |  |  | apart *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Lineik | the older one |  |  |  | by a bit | tree rules |

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