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title: Mate, how old was she when it all kicked off? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how old was she when it all kicked off? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre…

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Mate, how old was she when it all kicked off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, she · **What happens:** be, kick off · **To what, where:** she

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» 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/731-pg2591-part7/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t2:1
# text = Mate, how old was she when it all kicked off?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate | she |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick off** | past | she |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t2:o1:1
# text = twelve
1	twelve	twelve	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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fifteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t2:o2:1
# text = fifteen
1	fifteen	fifteen	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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about fifteen years old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t2:o3:1
# text = about fifteen years old
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	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	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fifteen or so, I think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t2:o4:1
# text = fifteen or so, I think
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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

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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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