Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part…

Did the old woman let them stay for ages?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old woman, them · What happens: let, stay · To what, where: them

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1852 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part 36: the prince falls for a fairy's reflection, and the friends escape the robbers» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the old woman	them = they					tree rules
2	stay	infinitive	them = they not said here				for ages		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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, only a few days, because of the muhrs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 days	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 days	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 days	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 muhrs	punct
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 muhrs	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 because	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 muhrs	det
11	muhrs	muhr	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 days	conj

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

Option 2

Yeah, a few weeks, because of the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 weeks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 weeks	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weeks	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rain	punct
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 rain	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rain	det
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weeks	nmod

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

Option 3

Nah, only a few days, because of the muhrs, and she told them to leave the hut soon after

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 days	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 days	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 days	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 muhrs	punct
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 muhrs	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 because	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 muhrs	det
11	muhrs	muhr	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 days	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 leave	mark
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hut	det
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leave	obj
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 leave	advmod
22	after	after	ADP	_	18 leave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		muhrs = muhr		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave after not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the hut				soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme

Option 4

Nah, only a week, because she was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 week	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 tired	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tired	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	cop
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					tired property	tree rules

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