Test 6 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…
how long did the crickets take to sort the seeds, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crickets · What happens: do, take, sort, innit · To what, where: seeds
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1841 «Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking prince, a talking corpse, a clever cricket» 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 | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crickets | det |
| 5 | crickets | cricket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sort | mark |
| 8 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seeds | det |
| 10 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sort | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sort | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | present | the crickets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sort | to-infinitive | the crickets not said here | the seeds | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | innit | infinitive | the crickets not said here | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
one night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
three days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | 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
two nights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 nights | nummod |
| 2 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
an hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | 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/1841-pg7128-part25/t6/