Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…
was the castle gone for ages then?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, go · To what, where: castle
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 castle | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | csubj |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ages | case |
| 6 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | obl |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gone | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the castle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | participle | for ages; then | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for age=Beneficiary |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they had nine days to get it back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get back | to-infinitive | they not said here | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nah, just a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they got it back in a day or so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 so | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 day | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | they | it | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yeah, ages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 ages | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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