Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…
fr, how long was the king stuck in a fever?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, stick · To what, where: king, fever
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 king | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fr | appos |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 king | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fever | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fever | det |
| 11 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stick | participle | the king not said here | a fever | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fever=Destination |
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
like three whole days without waking up once, sweating and mumbling the entire time
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 waking | discourse |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waking | nsubj |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 waking | mark |
| 6 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 waking | compound:prt |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 waking | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweating | punct |
| 10 | sweating | sweat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 waking | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mumbling | cc |
| 12 | mumbling | mumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 waking | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mumbling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | gerund | three whole days | once property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sweat | gerund | three whole days not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mumble speech: other | gerund | three whole days not said here | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
a whole night
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
like three days straight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 days | discourse |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 days | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
like almost two weeks total
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 total | discourse |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 two | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 weeks | nummod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 total | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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