Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Gopani-Kufa and the Magic Mirror, part 4:…

How long was he chilling as chief before the white men turned up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, white men · What happens: chill, turn up

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1138 «Gutenberg 3027, Gopani-Kufa and the Magic Mirror, part 4: the Mirror is stolen and the white men take all the power» 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 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chilling	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chilling	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chilling	nsubj
5	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 chief	case
7	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chilling	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chilling	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 turned	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	he					as chief; long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	turn up	past	the white men						vn appear-48.1.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Like, a few good years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	6 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 years	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 years	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 years	amod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Not long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Loads and loads of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 loads	cc
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod

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

Option 4

Donkey's years, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Donkey	case
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	conj

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

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