Test 3 · ★ · Old Tales, Virgilius, part 65: Virgilius frees a spirit, g…

lol, how long did the emperor say he'd sit on the case?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: do, say, sit · To what, where: case · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1814 «Old Tales, Virgilius, part 65: Virgilius frees a spirit, gets the magic books, and faces his foes» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
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	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 emperor	det
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sit	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sit	aux
11	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 case	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 case	det
14	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sit	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the emperor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	would	emperor	the case		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on case=Location

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

Five whole years, probably

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 years	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four whole years, like, forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 like	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Forever, because he never intended to decide the case at all in his entire life

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forever	forever	ADV	_	6 intended	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Forever	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 intended	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 intended	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 intended	advmod
6	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 decide	mark
8	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 intended	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 case	det
10	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 decide	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 decide	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 life	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
15	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 life	amod
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 decide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not intend	past	he					forever property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	decide not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the case		all		in his entire life	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent case=Topic

Option 4

Three long years, I guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guess	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 guess	nsubj
6	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	I				year		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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