Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

Dude, how long did he spend on his new ships?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: spend · To what, where: new ships

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spend	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 spend	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spend	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spend	nsubj
7	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 ships	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ships	nmod:poss
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ships	amod
11	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spend	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · do-support	he					on his new ships goal; long property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on ship=Goal

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Five whole years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seven whole years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Three long years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Many whole years of building, hammering and sailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hammering	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 building	case
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hammering	punct
7	hammering	hammer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sailing	cc
9	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hammering	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hammer	gerund	Many whole years of building						vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	sail	gerund	Many whole years of building not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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