Test 14 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

How long did she stay at the fairy palace, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: stay · To what, where: fairy palace

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» 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 stay	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
8	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 palace	amod
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stay	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · do-support	she			the fairy palace	then	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=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 · ← Mova's choice

two nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

eight nights, quite long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nights	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 nights	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

eight days, which flew by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flew	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly by	past					day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nine days, and then she left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 left	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	nine days				then		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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