Test 3 · ★ · Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy st…

wait, how many times did he hold the hen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, hold · To what, where: hen

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1237 «Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy steals a golden hen, but keeps going back into the palace, and the fox rescues the princess from the giants» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hold	obl:unmarked
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hold	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hold	nsubj
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hen	det
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past · do-support	he	the hen			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=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

just once, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 once	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 once	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 once	discourse

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he held her twice and she always escaped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	obj
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 held	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 escaped	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 escaped	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 escaped	advmod
8	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	he	her = she				twice property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	escape	past	she					always property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

twice, then he gave up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 twice	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gave	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he				then	twice property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three times, then he lost her every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lost	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lost	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	her = she			then; time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

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