--- title: Be honest, how old did the little storks reckon that tiny kid was? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Be honest, how old did the little storks reckon that tiny kid was? Test 4 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/993-pg27200-part204/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st… Be honest, how old did the little storks reckon that tiny kid was? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little storks, tiny kid · **What happens:** be, reckon This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t4:1 # text = Be honest, how old did the little storks reckon that tiny kid was? 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 cop _ _ 2 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 reckon reckon VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the little storks | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **be** | past | tiny kid | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} About fifty, I think ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t4:o1:1 # text = About fifty, I think 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | fifty | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Very old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t4:o2:1 # text = Very old 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten, maybe ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t4:o3:1 # text = Ten, maybe 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} At least a hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t4:o4:1 # text = At least a hundred 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 nmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 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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