Test 5 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

How long was the King stuck as a bird, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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	6 stuck	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stuck	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	nsubj
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 stuck	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	King					as a bird; long, stuck property	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

three years, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj

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

Option 2

five years, mate, as a bird in the fir tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nmod

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

Option 3

five whole years, mate, until the Enchanter came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Enchanter	det
9	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the Enchanter				year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

five years, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj

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.

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