--- title: Whereas one sibling is aged nine and another six, ascertain the age… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics description: Whereas one sibling is aged nine and another six, ascertain the age of the younger upon the elder attaining twenty years. Exam question 2 of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/e2/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" Whereas one sibling is aged nine and another six, ascertain the age of the younger upon the elder attaining twenty years. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elder · **What happens:** be, ascertain, attain · **To what, where:** age This is exam question 2 of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» of the world 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/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e2:1 # text = Whereas one sibling is aged nine and another six, ascertain the age of the younger upon the elder attaining twenty years. 1 Whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 sibling sibling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ascertain ascertain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 attaining attain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | whereas one sibling; nine *obl:unmarked*; aged *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ascertain** | infinitive | | the age | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic | | 3 | **attain** | gerund | the elder *not said here* | | | | year | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e2:o1:1 # 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Seventeen ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e2:o2:1 # text = Seventeen 1 Seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Fourteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e2:o3:1 # text = Fourteen 1 Fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twenty-three ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps:e2:o4:1 # text = Twenty-three 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 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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