Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

how many times did she ask "are you asleep" before going in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, you · What happens: ask, be, go in · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ask	obl:unmarked
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 asleep	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	cop
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 asleep	nsubj
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ask	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 asleep	punct
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ask	advcl
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	she	time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	you		asleep property	tree rules
3	go in	gerund	she not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

three times before going in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 going	obl:unmarked
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	gerund					time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

many times over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 times	amod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 over	obl:unmarked
3	over	over	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

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

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