Test 9 · ★ · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…

How long has the Thief been chasing the steed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thief · What happens: have, chase · To what, where: steed

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» 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 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Thief	det
5	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chasing	nsubj
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 chasing	aux
7	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 has	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 steed	det
9	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chasing	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present						long property	tree rules
2	chase	participle · progressive	the Thief	the steed					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=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

Since he was young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	SCONJ	_	4 young	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					young property	tree rules

Option 2

For seven long winters now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	4 winters	case
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 winters	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 winters	amod
4	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 winters	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven years, the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Seven years, the whole time, without ever catching him once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 time	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 catching	punct
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 catching	mark
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 catching	advmod
10	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 time	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catching	obj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 catching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	gerund		him = he			ever	once property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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