Test 14 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: th…

how many miles did the Carl stop before Ben Edair for blackberries?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many miles · What happens: do · To what, where: Carl stop

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1058 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: the Carl stops for blackberries while Fionn waits for news» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miles	amod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stop	det
6	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stop	compound
7	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 Edair	case
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Edair	flat
10	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 blackberries	case
12	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	many miles	the Carl stop			before Ben Edair	for blackberries	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Eventuality

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

Four miles, he was near the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 river	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 river	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 river	cop
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the river			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Two miles, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	conj

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

Option 3

Five miles, at the far side of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 side	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 side	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Five miles, he was right near the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 right	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 miles	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Five miles				near the end	right property	tree rules

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