Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…

How long did his mam last after the dance, roughly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: mam

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1305 «Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore» 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	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mam	nmod:poss
5	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	last	last	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 dance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dance	det
9	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 roughly	punct
11	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		his mam			after the dance	last, long, roughly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mam=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

nearly three long years after the dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 dance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dance	det
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod

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

Option 3

two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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