Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Toads and Diamonds: two sisters at the founta…

how far was the fountain, roughly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: fountain

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1477 «Fairy Tales, Toads and Diamonds: two sisters at the fountain, one gets pearls and diamonds, the other gets snakes and toads» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fountain	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fountain	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fountain	det
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roughly	punct
7	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	5 fountain	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fountain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fountain				far, roughly 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

over a mile and a half, mad long walk through mud and rain every single day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADP	_	3 mile	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mile	det
3	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 half	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 half	det
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 mile	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walk	amod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walk	amod
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mile	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 mud	case
12	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rain	cc
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	conj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obl:unmarked

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

Option 2

nearly two miles, a long old trek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 miles	nummod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trek	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trek	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trek	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trek	amod
8	trek	trek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miles	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

far more than a mile and a half, mad long walk over the hills and through the woods

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 mile	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mile	det
5	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 more	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 half	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 half	det
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 mile	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walk	punct
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 walk	amod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 walk	amod
12	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mile	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 hills	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hills	det
15	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walk	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 woods	cc
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 woods	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woods	det
19	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hills	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

over a mile and a half, mad long walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADP	_	3 mile	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mile	det
3	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 half	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 half	det
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 mile	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walk	amod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walk	amod
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mile	conj

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

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