Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

Wait, how long did the whale lie across the strait?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, whale · What happens: wait, do, lie · To what, where: strait

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
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	1 Wait	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whale	det
7	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	nsubj
8	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 strait	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strait	det
11	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here		long property	tree rules
3	lie	present	the whale	the strait		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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

Three years across the whole width of the strait without moving once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	6 width	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 width	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 width	amod
6	width	width	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 strait	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strait	det
9	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 width	nmod
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 moving	mark
11	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 strait	acl
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 moving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund	the strait not said here					once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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