Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

so how long did this whole money-making thing go on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this, whole making thing · What happens: do, make, thing, go on

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 thing	nsubj
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 money	punct
9	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	ccomp
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	acl
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	gerund			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	thing		this		tree rules
4	go on	infinitive	whole making thing not said here		vn function-105.2.1 «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

a few decades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 decades	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 decades	amod
3	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a few years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	few	few	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

several years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 years	amod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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