Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

Yo, how long was Vivien stuck doing that bath thing, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doing · What happens: be, do, innit · To what, where: bath thing

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stuck	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuck	cop
6	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	compound
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stuck	csubj
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 thing	det
10	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	compound
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stuck	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	doing		long, stuck property	tree rules
2	do	gerund		that bath thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	innit	infinitive	doing not said here			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

Six months, proper ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ages	punct
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ages	amod
5	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 months	conj

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

Option 2

Six weeks, real fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 real	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 weeks	punct
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 real	advmod

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

Option 3

Sixty hours, dead quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quick	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hours	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quick	amod
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty days, dead long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod

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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