Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

How far did they go looking for each other, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: go, look

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 go	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 go	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 looking	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	5 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	they					far property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	gerund	they not said here					for each	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for each=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

like, three whole years and more of walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	5 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 like	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 years	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 walking	case
9	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nmod

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

Option 2

two whole years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

four whole years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three whole years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

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