Test 2 · ★ · Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and es…

wait, how long did the brothers ride before they met the old lady?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: wait, do, ride, meet · To what, where: old lady

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1810 «Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and escapes the ogre» 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 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ride	nsubj
8	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 met	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ride	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	ride	present	the brothers			tree rules
4	meet	past	brothers = brother	the old lady		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Co-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

twelve, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 twelve	vocative

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

12 days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

twelve days, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos

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

Option 4

seven days, bro

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos

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

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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