Test 12 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Yo, how long did Jesper have to finish the sorting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jesper · What happens: have, finish · To what, where: sorting

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 have	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 finish	mark
9	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sorting	det
11	sorting	sorting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finish	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	Jesper					long property	tree rules
2	finish	to-infinitive	Jesper not said here	the sorting					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sorting=Eventuality

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

Until sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Till an hour before sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 sunset	case
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod

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

Option 3

Till an hour after dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod

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

Option 4

Until the bells ring noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	ADP	_	3 bells	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ring	nsubj
4	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	the bells				noon		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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