Test 3 · ★ · pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chai…
Bro, how long did that Dragon take to die?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: do, take, die
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | vocative |
| 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 7 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 die | mark |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bro vocative; long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | present | Dragon | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | Dragon not said here | 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
Two days and two nights, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nights | nummod |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bruv | punct |
| 7 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Three days and three nights, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nights | nummod |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bruv | punct |
| 7 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Five days and a night, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bruv | punct |
| 7 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Like three weeks, bruv, it just kept on thrashing about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 weeks | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weeks | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeks | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 kept | advmod |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 thrashing | mark |
| 11 | thrashing | thrash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 kept | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 thrashing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | bruv | week | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | thrash about | gerund | bruv not said here | about property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1682-pg640-part6/t3/