--- title: What is the approximate age of the boy who commenced the mocking son… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: What is the approximate age of the boy who commenced the mocking song, as perceived by the young storks? Exam question 3 of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/993-pg27200-part204/e3/) [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 Fairy Tales, The Storks, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/993-pg27200-part204/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st… What is the approximate age of the boy who commenced the mocking song, as perceived by the young storks? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** approximate age, boy · **What happens:** be, commence, perceive · **To what, where:** mocking song This is exam question 3 of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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/993-pg27200-part204/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:e3:1 # text = What is the approximate age of the boy who commenced the mocking song, as perceived by the young storks? 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 _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 commenced commence VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 mocking mocking NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 perceived perceive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the approximate age of the boy | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **commence** | past | the boy | the mocking song | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality | | 3 | **perceive** | participle | the boy *not said here* | | | | | by the young storks | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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} Six years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:e3:o1:1 # text = Six years 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:e3:o2:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:e3:o3:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Five years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:e3:o4:1 # text = Five years 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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