--- title: how old was the oak, like for real? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's L… · tree and pragmatics description: how old was the oak, like for real? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/867-pg27200-part78/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/867-pg27200-part78/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm… how old was the oak, like for real? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** old oak This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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/867-pg27200-part78/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t8:1 # text = how old was the oak, like for real? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the old oak | | | | | tree rules | 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} three hundred and sixty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t8:o1:1 # text = three hundred and sixty 1 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} almost four hundred years of storms and sunshine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t8:o2:1 # text = almost four hundred years of storms and sunshine 1 almost almost ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} two hundred and ninety-two ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t8:o3:1 # text = two hundred and ninety-two 1 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ninety ninety NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} three hundred and sixty-five ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t8:o4:1 # text = three hundred and sixty-five 1 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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