Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…

how long did Laili walk about for, like proper long???

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Laili · What happens: walk

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a fish» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walk	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	aux
4	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 about	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 long	case
10	proper	properly	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walk	advmod
12	???	???	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	Laili					about, long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

a few years, mate, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mad	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

twelve days, mate, mad

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	6 mad	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

twelve years, mate, mad

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	6 mad	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

twelve years, mate, mad, and she never gave up once on the road

The tree, 13 words

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	6 mad	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 gave	advmod
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 gave	compound:prt
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 gave	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	past	she			the road		once property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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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