Test 5 · ★ · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

no way, what time did the cloth have to be done by?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: time, way · What happens: do, have, do by · To what, where: cloth, way

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 way	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloth	det
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	12 done	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 done	aux:pass
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 have	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 done	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what time	the cloth	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Eventuality
2	have	present		no way	tree rules
3	do by	to-infinitive · passive	no way not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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

by the time the moon came up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the moon				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

before the bells rang out at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 rang	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 rang	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring out	past	the bells				night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

midday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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