Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen'…

Mate, how long did the king actually keep that grave watch going?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grave watch · What happens: keep, go · To what, where: grave watch

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» 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	9 keep	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 watch	det
11	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 watch	amod
12	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support		that grave watch				Mate vocative; actually property	tree rules
2	go	gerund	that grave watch not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

A year, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mate	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 year	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Seven months, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 months	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	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	reckon	present	Seven months						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven years, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 proper	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Like three years, dunno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	3 years	discourse
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dunno	punct
5	dunno	dunno	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	conj

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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