Test 6 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

Mate, how long did the youth get to grow his beard?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, youth · What happens: do, get, grow · To what, where: beard

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 grow	mark
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 get	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beard	nmod:poss
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the youth			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	grow	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	Mate's beard		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beard=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 · ✓ the right answer

Two years, dead long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Loads of time, the king gave him two years and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gave	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 time	case
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gave	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 more	cc
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 years	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Loads of time		king		year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Ages, like ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ages	conj

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

Option 4

Two whole years, which was plenty of time for his beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plenty	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 plenty	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plenty	cop
7	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 time	case
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plenty	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 beard	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beard	nmod:poss
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plenty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Two whole years and plenty	plenty			time	for his beard	tree rules

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