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title: How old was the littlest kid, like, dead tiny? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: How old was the littlest kid, like, dead tiny? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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How old was the littlest kid, like, dead tiny?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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/908-pg27200-part119/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t12:1
# text = How old was the littlest kid, like, dead tiny?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	littlest	little	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old littlest kid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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just under five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t12:o1:1
# text = just under five
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	five	five	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 {#o2}

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a babe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t12:o2:1
# text = a babe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t12:o3:1
# text = about four
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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not more than two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t12:o4:1
# text = not more than two
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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