Test 13 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

Mate, how long did the brothers stay in the forest before the dad died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, dad · What happens: do, stay, die · To what, where: brothers, forest

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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	8 stay	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	1 Mate	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obj
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 died	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dad	det
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	nsubj
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the brothers		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality
2	stay	present	Mate		the forest		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	die	past	the dad				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

a few years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

some months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 months	det
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weeks	week	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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