Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

How long did the boy wander before the dove came over?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dove · What happens: do, come over · To what, where: boy wander

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1189 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the boy takes the white bird from the aviary, the enchanted water frees the captives, and the courtiers plot against the bird» 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	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wander	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wander	compound
6	wander	wander	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dove	det
9	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boy wander				long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wander=Eventuality
2	come over	past	the dove					over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Three days, and then the fourth morning was the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 same	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 same	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 same	obl:unmarked
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 same	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					then; morning	same property	tree rules

Option 2

Three nights, and the next dawn was much the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 same	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 same	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dawn	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dawn	amod
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 same	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 same	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	11 same	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nights	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the next dawn					same property	tree rules

Option 3

Four days, and then the fifth morning was the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 same	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 same	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 same	obl:unmarked
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 same	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					then; morning	same property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Two days, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos

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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