Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

fam, how long was the princess stuck in that tower with only a parrot and a dog for mates

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be · To what, where: tower

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stuck	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stuck	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	nsubj
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fam	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tower	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 tower	det
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 parrot	case
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 parrot	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 parrot	det
15	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tower	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dog	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tower	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 mates	case
20	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess			that tower with a parrot and a dog		for mates; long, stuck property	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

for years on end, till she was grown up and ready to marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 years	case
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grown	obl
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 end	case
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 grown	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grown	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grown	aux:pass
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ready	cc
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grown	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · passive		she			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	marry	to-infinitive							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

years and years, till she was grown up and could leave the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grown	obl:unmarked
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 years	cc
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 years	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 years	punct
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 grown	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grown	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	aux:pass
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grown	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leave	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	aux
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grown	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tower	det
14	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · passive		she			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	leave	could		the tower					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

years, till she was grown up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grown	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 years	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 grown	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grown	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux:pass
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · passive		she			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

about eighteen years in all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 eighteen	advmod
2	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	nmod

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

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