Test 9 · ★ · Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves th…

How long did the messengers tak tae find him, pal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: messengers · What happens: tak, find · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses 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	6 tak	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tak	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 messengers	det
5	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tak	nsubj
6	tak	tak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tak	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pal	punct
11	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tak	past · do-support	the messengers					long property	tree rules
2	find	infinitive	the messengers not said here	him = he				pal obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

Many days, dead long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Many days, dead long, searching every village by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 long	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	amod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 searching	punct
7	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 long	advcl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 searching	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	gerund		every village				by the sea	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent village=Location

Option 3

Not long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Some days, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	some days						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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