Test 10 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

Mate, did the turtle say he'd be gone for four days or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, turtle · What happens: do, say, go · To what, where: turtle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 turtle	det
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 gone	aux:pass
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 say	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 days	nummod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gone	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 gone	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	Mate			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	would · passive		turtle	day	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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

Nah, four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he said it would be four years, not four days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 years	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 years	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 years	cop
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 days	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 days	advmod
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 days	nummod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 years	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	it	four years					tree rules

Option 3

No, he told her he would be gone for four whole years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gone	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 gone	aux:pass
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	would · passive		he			year		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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