Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Demon with the Matted Hair, part 1…

bruh what did the guest's reply mean about the year

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guest · What happens: do, mean, reply · To what, where: reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1850 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Demon with the Matted Hair, part 1: the prince meets the Demon in the forest» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guest	det
5	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reply	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 guest	case
7	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past		the guest's reply		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Eventuality
2	mean	present			year	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	reply		the guest			nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

there were only eleven months in the year, because he had counted the seasons himself on the road

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eleven	advmod
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 counted	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 counted	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 counted	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 counted	aux
13	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 were	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seasons	det
15	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 counted	obj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 counted	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 road	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 counted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	eleven months			there	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	count	past · perfect	he	himself = he			season	on the road	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on road=Theme

Option 2

the year had thirteen months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the year				month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

there were only eleven months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eleven	advmod
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	eleven months			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

twelve months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	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.

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