Test 9 · ★ · Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired,…

how long was the job, like seriously

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: job

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1183 «Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired, part 49: Ardan herds the old man's cows and is turned to stone» 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 job	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 job	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 job	det
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 job	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 seriously	case
8	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	5 job	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the job				long property	tree rules

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

a year, paid at the end

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	4 paid	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 year	punct
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle					at the end; year		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

twelve months with payment at harvest time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 payment	case
4	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 months	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 payment	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a whole year, paid after the new year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 year	acl
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		a whole year not said here			year		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a few months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 months	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 months	amod
3	months	month	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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