Test 5 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…
Ngl, how long did the wedding get put off, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, put off · To what, where: wedding, Ngl
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 did | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ngl | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fam | punct |
| 12 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the wedding | long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | put off | present · passive | Ngl | fam obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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
one whole year, then another, till the dragon was forgotten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 year | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 another | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 another | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 another | advmod |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 another | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 dragon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgotten | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 12 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 another | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · passive | till the dragon | tree rules |
Option 2
two whole years, then done
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 | 6 done | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | two whole years | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
one whole year, then another, and then another one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 year | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 another | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 another | advmod |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 year | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 one | advmod |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
one whole year, then another
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 year | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 another | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 another | advmod |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 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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