Test 7 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

how long did Dad mourn, like, how many days?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: mourn

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» 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 mourn	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mourn	aux
4	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mourn	nsubj
5	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 days	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mourn	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mourn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	past · do-support	Dad				day	long property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Forty full days in black cloth at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	nmod

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

Option 2

Forty nights in red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 red	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nights	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Forty days in black, with no food or wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 black	case
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 food	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 food	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 wine	cc
10	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Forty days in black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 black	case
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	nmod

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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