Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…
Ah, how long did the princess make the prince wait, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: make, wait · To what, where: prince
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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 | Ah | ah | 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 wait | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | the prince not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice
two months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
three whole months, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 think | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 months | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | 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 | think speech: other | present | I | month | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
until the next harvest had passed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 passed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 harvest | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 harvest | amod |
| 4 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | aux |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the next harvest | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
one month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 month | nummod |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1834-pg7128-part18/t13/