Test 7 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

The giant was asleep for how long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 long	case
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 asleep	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant					asleep 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 · ✓ the right answer

A quarter of an hour, so he had to be quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarter	det
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarter	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	12 quick	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 quick	cop
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a quarter of a hour						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	a quarter of a hour not said here					quick property	tree rules

Option 2

Half an hour, so he had to be quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 hour	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 quick	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 quick	cop
10	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he				hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	he not said here					quick property	tree rules

Option 3

A quarter of an hour, so he had to be really quick and not make a sound

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarter	det
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarter	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	13 quick	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 quick	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 quick	advmod
13	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quick	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 make	advmod
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive	a quarter of a hour not said here					quick property	tree rules
2	not make	past	a quarter of a hour	a sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 4

A whole night long, so the boy could slip out of the castle gates unseen by anyone at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slip	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 night	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slip	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 slip	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slip	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 slip	aux
10	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	15 gates	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 gates	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gates	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gates	compound
15	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slip	obl
16	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gates	amod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 anyone	case
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 slip	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip out	could	the boy	the castle gates			night	by anyone	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

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