Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…
How long did Jack graft for the old lady, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Jack graft
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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 | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 graft | compound |
| 5 | graft | graft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 lady | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Jack graft | for the old lady and bruv; long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graft=Eventuality |
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
A year 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 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | 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 year | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nine months, maybe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 months | punct |
| 4 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 2 months | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven whole years, the usual apprenticeship term, bruv
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 | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 term | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 term | det |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 term | amod |
| 7 | apprenticeship | apprenticeship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 term | compound |
| 8 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bruv | punct |
| 10 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 term | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A year and a day, as the old lady had demanded of him
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 | 12 demanded | obl:unmarked |
| 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 year | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lady | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 lady | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lady | amod |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demanded | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 demanded | aux |
| 12 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 demanded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past · perfect · passive | the old lady | year | of him = he | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
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