Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

Dude, how long did Schacabac chill at the rich guy's crib?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: chill · To what, where: crib

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 196 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hungry brother eats an imaginary feast, and the barber revives the dead hunchback» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chill	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 chill	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chill	aux
6	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chill	nsubj
7	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	13 crib	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guy	det
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 guy	amod
11	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crib	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 guy	case
13	crib	crib	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chill	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · do-support	Schacabac			the rich guy's crib		long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

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

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

Option 2

about twenty long years at his place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod:poss
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod

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

Option 3

fifteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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