Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem…

How often did the Prince of the Air go visit his mum and bros?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, visit · To what, where: Prince, mum

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1696 «Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem for Rosalie» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Air	det
8	Air	Air	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Prince	nmod
9	go	go	PART	_	10 visit	mark
10	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mum	nmod:poss
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visit	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bros	cc
14	bros	bro	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mum	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Prince of the Air				often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	visit	infinitive		his mum and bros					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Co-Agent

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

Once a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 month	det
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl:unmarked

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Each time the spirits called him to his old home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spirits	det
4	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 home	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 home	amod
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the spirits	him = he	his old home		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to home=Recipient

Option 4

Twice a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Twice	obl:unmarked

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

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