Test 12 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…

yo, how long does the lad have to work for the troll?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: have, work

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 have	advmod
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 work	mark
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 troll	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 troll	det
13	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 work	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	the lad					long property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the lad not said here					for the troll	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for troll=Beneficiary

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

seven years

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

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

Option 2

until the lad has paid back his father's debt in full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 paid	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 debt	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 full	case
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	present · perfect · passive		the lad		full			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient debt=Asset

Option 3

until the next harvest of three summers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	ADP	_	4 harvest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harvest	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 harvest	amod
4	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 summers	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 summers	nummod
7	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harvest	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	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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