Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…
Yo, how long did Jack get to find it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, find · To what, where: it
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 get | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | Jack | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | it | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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
a twelvemonths and a day, and not a minute more, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 twelvemonths | det |
| 2 | twelvemonths | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bruv | nmod:poss |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twelvemonths | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 minute | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 minute | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 minute | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twelvemonths | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 minute | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 twelvemonths | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
seven whole years and a day before the king would cut his head off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 day | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | conj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cut | aux |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 cut | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | would | seven whole years before the king and a day | king's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
Option 3
twelve months and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 months | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a twelvemonths and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 twelvemonths | det |
| 2 | twelvemonths | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twelvemonths | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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