Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

ngl, how long was the peace for, like six days or six weeks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: peace

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 peace	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 peace	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 peace	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peace	det
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 days	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 peace	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 weeks	cc
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 weeks	nummod
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 days	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the peace			day	long 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 · ← Mova's choice

six months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

through the whole of the winter and spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 whole	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whole	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 winter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whole	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spring	cc
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 winter	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

six weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

for six full weeks before the feast ended

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 weeks	case
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 weeks	nummod
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weeks	amod
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ended	obl
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 feast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feast	det
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weeks	nmod
8	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past					week		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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