Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

so the brothers only get home once a year, that's rough, how many days?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers, that · What happens: get, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 get	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 once	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rough	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 rough	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rough	cop
13	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 days	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 many	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rough	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the brothers					home, once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	that				day	rough property	tree rules

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

eleven days, then they fly off again across the ocean to the far land where they live

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fly	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fly	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fly	nsubj
6	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fly	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 ocean	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ocean	det
11	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
14	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 live	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 live	nsubj
18	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 land	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	they			the ocean	then; again; day	to the far land result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result
2	live	present	they						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

two weeks, then they fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fly	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 weeks	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fly	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fly	nsubj
6	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	present	they				then; week	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

eleven days, then they fly off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fly	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fly	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fly	nsubj
6	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fly	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	they				then; day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

just one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	3 day	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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