Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…
Bruv, how long did Jack have to wait before going home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: have, wait, go
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 have | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 have | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wait | mark |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wait | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · do-support | Jack | Bruv vocative; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | Jack not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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
three years and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | 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 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a twelvemonth 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 twelvemonth | det |
| 2 | twelvemonth | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 twelvemonth | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1956-pg7439-part15/t3/