--- title: A boy in America reads «M» on a game. What age does that mean, about? — What the numbers on the box mean · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in America reads «M» on a game. What age does that mean, about? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 400 «What the numbers on the box mean» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/t5/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [What the numbers on the box mean](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★★★ · What the numbers on the box mean A boy in America reads «M» on a game. What age does that mean, about? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, age · **What happens:** read, mean · **To what, where:** M, game This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 400 «What the numbers on the box mean» of the everyday 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/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A boy in America reads «M» on a game. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t5:1 # text = A boy in America reads «M» on a game. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 M M NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | a boy in America | M | | a game | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Topic | 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. *Sentence 2:* What age does that mean, about? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t5:2 # text = What age does that mean, about? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | what age | | | | | about *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 17 and up ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t5:o1:1 # text = 17 and up 1 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 up up ADV RB _ 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twelve and up ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t5:o2:1 # text = Twelve and up 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 up up ADV RB _ 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Seven and up ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t5:o3:1 # text = Seven and up 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 up up ADV RB _ 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Any age at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t5:o4:1 # text = Any age at all 1 Any any DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nmod _ _ ``` 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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