Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

How long did she have to wait on the stone, dead long?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: have, wait · To what, where: stone

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1502 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady's wanderings and the Red Etin's beginning: the lady wins the knight back and the Red Etin's tale starts» 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	5 have	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wait	mark
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	amod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stone	amod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	she					long property	tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	she not said here			the stone			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location

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

Till she grew tired of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	SCONJ	_	3 grew	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	she					tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Till she had waited seven years and seven more on that cold stone by the sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	SCONJ	_	4 waited	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	aux
4	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waited	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 more	nummod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 years	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 stone	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 stone	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stone	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect	she			that cold stone	year	by the sea	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location

Option 3

Till she was sick of waiting and the stone had worn a hole in her shoe

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	SCONJ	_	4 sick	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sick	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 waiting	mark
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sick	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 worn	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worn	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worn	aux
11	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sick	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worn	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 shoe	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shoe	nmod:poss
16	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		sick property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund	she not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wear	past · perfect · passive		the stone		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Till she was sick of waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	SCONJ	_	4 sick	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sick	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 waiting	mark
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sick	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sick property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund	she not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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