Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen ros…

a month? that's wild, what's the timer

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: month · What happens: be · To what, where: timer

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1438 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen rose and the Beast's bargain» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wild	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 month	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 wild	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wild	cop
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 timer	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 timer	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 timer	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 timer	det
11	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wild	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a month					wild property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the timer					tree rules

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

Like a month-long countdown before he comes back and checks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	6 countdown	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 countdown	det
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	obl:unmarked
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 month	punct
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countdown	amod
6	countdown	countdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 countdown	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 checks	cc
12	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 countdown	conj

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

Option 2

Thirty days to decide but the timer never stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 decide	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 decide	mark
4	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stops	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 timer	det
7	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stops	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 stops	advmod
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 decide	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	to-infinitive	Thirty days						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not stop	present	the timer						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Like a week, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 week	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 week	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thirty days to decide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 decide	mark
4	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 days	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	to-infinitive							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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