Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…
Wait, how long did the Princess have to wait, a week or a year and twelve weeks?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: wait, have
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 have | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wait | mark |
| 10 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 week | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wait | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 year | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 week | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 weeks | cc |
| 18 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 weeks | nummod |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past · do-support | the Princess | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
about a year, I'd say
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 year | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | I | a year not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent year=Topic |
Option 2
a year and twelve weeks, maybe longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weeks | cc |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 weeks | nummod |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 year | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 year | punct |
| 7 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a year and twelve weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weeks | cc |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 weeks | nummod |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 year | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
three years and twelve whole weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 weeks | cc |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 weeks | nummod |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weeks | amod |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | conj |
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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