Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

test: Nah, how long had that tower been empty, like proper ages?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tower · What happens: have, be · To what, where: test

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
3	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 had	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 had	advmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tower	det
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 empty	nsubj
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 empty	cop
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ages	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 ages	case
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ages	amod
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		test			like proper ages	long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	that tower					empty 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

about three hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 while	det
2	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

nearly two centuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 centuries	nummod
3	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

about two hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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