Test 10 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from…

For how long did the dragon stay gone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, go · To what, where: dragon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1771 «Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred children» 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 did	mark
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dragon				long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Eventuality
2	go	infinitive							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

Forever, from that day on, until the whole village was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forever	forever	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Forever	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forever	obl
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 day	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Forever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whole village					gone property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Forever, like from that day on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forever	forever	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Forever	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forever	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	1 Forever	fixed

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

Option 3

For about three long years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 three	advmod
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Until the next full moon came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	ADP	_	5 moon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moon	amod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moon	amod
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past					until the next full moon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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