Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

Honestly, how long did the massacre take the dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: massacre · What happens: do, take · To what, where: dog

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1069 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 massacre	det
7	massacre	massacre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	nsubj
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						honestly, long property	tree rules
2	take	infinitive	the massacre		the dog				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination

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

Nine minutes, dead slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 minutes	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slow	amod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

An hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ten minutes, dead quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 minutes	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quick	amod
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Ten minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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