Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…

Nah, how long is the King stuck there?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: be, stick

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stuck	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	nsubj
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stuck	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						long property	tree rules
2	stick	past	the King			there			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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 rest of his life in that cruel palace of glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 life	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 palace	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 palace	det
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 palace	amod
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 glass	case
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 palace	nmod

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

Option 2

twenty years or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 so	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 years	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

until he has grown old and his hair has turned white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 grown	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grown	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 grown	conj
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect	he					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	present · perfect	his hair					white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

thirty years or more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 more	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 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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