Test 13 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…

how long did stan wander before he got to that sheepfold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stan · What happens: wander, get

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wander	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wander	aux
4	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wander	nsubj
5	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wander	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sheepfold	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 sheepfold	det
11	sheepfold	sheepfold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wander	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past · do-support	stan					long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	stan					to that sheepfold result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sheepfold=Result

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

for many long years, through snow and rain, across seven kingdoms, until his boots were worn through to the bone

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 snow	case
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rain	cc
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snow	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kingdoms	punct
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 kingdoms	case
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kingdoms	nummod
13	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 years	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 worn	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 worn	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 boots	nmod:poss
17	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 worn	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 worn	aux:pass
19	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 years	acl
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 bone	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 through	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bone	det
23	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 worn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past · passive	many long years through snow and rain and seven kingdoms not said here	his boots		the bone			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ages, all the way to the end of the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ages	appos
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod

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

Option 3

a long time over rivers and mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 rivers	case
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 time	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mountains	cc
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rivers	conj

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

Option 4

ages, all the way to the end of the world and past the dark forest of the north

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ages	appos
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 forest	cc
13	past	past	ADP	_	16 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forest	amod
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 north	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 north	det
19	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forest	nmod

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

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