Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Bruv, how long did the prince reckon he'd been a crab, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: do, be · To what, where: prince, crab

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crab	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	reckon	reckon	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crab	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 crab	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crab	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 crab	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 crab	det
13	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crab	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	13 crab	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 crab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv not said here	the prince				Bruv vocative; long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	is a	present · perfect	Bruv	a crab					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

Loads of years, not knowing the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knowing	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 years	case
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knowing	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 knowing	advmod
6	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	Loads of years	the truth					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Like, a few hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	5 hours	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hours	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hours	amod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A few hours, not knowing it was ten days, mad innit, fam, no cap

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hours	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hours	amod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knowing	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knowing	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 knowing	advmod
6	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 days	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 days	cop
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knowing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 innit	amod
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 days	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fam	punct
15	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 innit	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 cap	det
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 days	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	a few hours						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	ten days					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A few hours, not knowing it was ten days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hours	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hours	amod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knowing	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knowing	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 knowing	advmod
6	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 days	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 days	cop
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knowing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	a few hours						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	ten days					tree rules

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