Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the puddi…

how long did he walk with the silver coin?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: walk

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1964 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walk	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 coin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coin	det
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coin	compound
9	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	he					with the silver coin; long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

like forty-eight hours, mad long, carrying the coin the whole way

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	5 hours	case
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 eight	punct
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forty	conj
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hours	punct
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	amod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carrying	punct
10	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 long	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coin	det
12	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrying	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrying	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		the coin				the whole way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

like forty-eight hours, mad long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	5 hours	case
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 eight	punct
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forty	conj
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hours	punct
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	amod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

like forty-two hours, mad long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	5 hours	case
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 two	punct
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forty	conj
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hours	punct
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	amod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

like two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	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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