Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the…

deadass, how long had the Cricket been living there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deadass, Cricket · What happens: have, live

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1389 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the puppet runs off and the Cricket is killed» 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cricket	det
7	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 living	nsubj
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 living	aux
9	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 had	ccomp
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 living	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	deadass					long property	tree rules
2	live	participle · progressive	the Cricket			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «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

for longer than anyone in the village can remember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 longer	case
2	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 remember	mark
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 remember	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anyone	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 remember	aux
9	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longer	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	can	anyone						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

about twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

for more than a hundred years before the puppet came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 hundred	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 more	fixed
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 puppet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 puppet	det
9	puppet	puppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past					year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

more than a hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 hundred	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 more	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	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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