Test 7 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

Dude, how long was he on his tod?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: long tod

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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	_	9 tod	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tod	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tod	cop
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tod	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tod	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tod	nmod:poss
9	tod	tod	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			his long tod			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

two tens of years and two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tens	nummod
2	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 years	case
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tens	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 years	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tens	conj

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

Option 2

a score and five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 score	det
2	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 years	cc
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 score	conj

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

Option 3

seven tens of years and a few more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tens	nummod
2	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 years	case
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tens	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 more	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 few	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 tens	conj

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

Option 4

all his life since the plague took his people, years without end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 life	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 life	nmod:poss
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 took	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plague	det
6	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 people	nmod:poss
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 years	punct
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	conj
12	without	without	ADP	_	13 end	case
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	his life		plague's people and years		without end		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination

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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