Test 11 · ★ · The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog beco…

How long was he off gallivanting, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: gallivant off

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1480 «The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog becomes a dove, and Blue Beard leaves his wife the keys» 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 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gallivanting	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gallivanting	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gallivanting	nsubj
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 gallivanting	compound:prt
6	gallivanting	gallivant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gallivanting	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 gallivanting	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gallivanting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallivant off	past · progressive	he				then	long property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Six weeks at least, to sort out some massive business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sort	obl:unmarked
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 least	case
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sort	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sort	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sort	mark
7	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 sort	compound:prt
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 business	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 business	amod
11	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	to-infinitive		some massive business		least	week		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme

Option 2

Three days, on a bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bike	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bike	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bike	det
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos

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

Option 3

Ages, like a whole year, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 year	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 year	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ages	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mad	punct
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ages	conj

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

Option 4

Just one night, then straight back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 back	advmod
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 back	advmod

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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