Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess La…

Bro, how long had that tiger had the thorn in his foot?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, tiger · What happens: have · To what, where: thorn, foot

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1818 «Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam, part 1: the prince disobeys his mother and sets out to find Labam» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thorn	det
10	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 foot	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 foot	nmod:poss
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thorn	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Bro					long property	tree rules
2	have	past	tiger	the thorn		tiger's foot			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Patient

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

Two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word 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 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Since the tiger was a young cub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	ADP	_	3 tiger	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tiger	det
3	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cub	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cub	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cub	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cub	amod
7	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a young cub			since the tiger		tree rules

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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