Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

how long were the sailors gonna wait for him, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: wait

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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	7 wait	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sailors	det
5	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wait	nsubj
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wait	dep
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	7 wait	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the sailors					for him = he; long property	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

until the next full moon, then they'd sail away for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	ADP	_	5 moon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moon	amod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moon	amod
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sail	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moon	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sail	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sail	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sail	aux
10	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 sail	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 good	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sail	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail away	would	they				until the next full moon; then	for good; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

fifteen days, then they'd bounce off without him for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bounce	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 bounce	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bounce	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bounce	aux
7	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 bounce	compound:prt
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bounce	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 sure	case
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce off	would	fifteen days				then	without him = he; for sure	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

fifteen days, then they'd bounce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bounce	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 bounce	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bounce	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bounce	aux
7	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 days	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	would	they	fifteen days not said here			then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Agent

Option 4

twelve days, then leave him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 leave	advmod
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	infinitive	twelve days	him = he			then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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