Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies…

how long did the curse last, like was it forever or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: curse · What happens: do, be · To what, where: curse

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1507 «Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies Fanfaronade through a peep-hole and falls for him» 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	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 curse	det
5	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	last	last	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forever	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 forever	case
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forever	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forever	nsubj
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 forever	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the curse				last, long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Eventuality
2	is	past	curse					forever 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 · ← Mova's choice

one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

till she was twenty-one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 one	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 twenty	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	twenty one					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

till she was twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	till	till	SCONJ	_	4 twenty	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 twenty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twenty	cop
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	twenty					tree rules

Option 4

till she was nineteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	till	till	SCONJ	_	4 nineteen	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nineteen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nineteen	cop
4	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	nineteen					tree rules

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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