--- title: A stump has 35 rings. About how old was the tree? — Trees and forests through the year · tree and pragmatics description: A stump has 35 rings. About how old was the tree? Test 1 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» of the world 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/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/t1/) [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/) / [Trees and forests through the year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/) / t1 # Test 1 · Trees and forests through the year A stump has 35 rings. About how old was the tree? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stump · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** 35 rings, old tree This is test 1 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» of the world 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/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A stump has 35 rings. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t1:1 # text = A stump has 35 rings. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stump stump NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 35 35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a stump | 35 rings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | 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:* About how old was the tree? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t1:2 # text = About how old was the tree? 1 About about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the old tree | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 350 years old ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t1:o1:1 # text = About 350 years old 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 350 350 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} We cannot tell from rings ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t1:o2:1 # text = We cannot tell from rings 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | We | | | rings | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} About 3 years old ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t1:o3:1 # text = About 3 years old 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} About 35 years old ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t1:o4:1 # text = About 35 years old 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 35 35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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