Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the stepmother's daughter…

how many nights did he have to guard the tree, fr?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many nights · What happens: have, guard · To what, where: tree

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1725 «Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the stepmother's daughter is frozen while the girl is saved» 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 nights	amod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 guard	mark
8	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fr	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	many nights						tree rules
2	guard	to-infinitive	many nights not said here	the tree and fr					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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

nine nights and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 more	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 nights	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nine days and nine nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nights	cc
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nights	nummod
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj

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

Option 3

seven days and seven nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nights	cc
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nights	nummod
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nine days and nine nights, without sleeping at all, under the great tree

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sleeping	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nights	cc
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nights	nummod
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sleeping	punct
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 sleeping	mark
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sleeping	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct
12	under	under	ADP	_	15 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund	nine days and nine nights			all		under the great tree	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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.

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