Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

How far did the sledge-hammer fire him, like a mile?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: hammer fire

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
5	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hammer	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sledge	punct
7	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	compound
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fire	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mile	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 mile	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mile	det
13	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the hammer fire				far property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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 · ← Mova's choice

Two miles off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	off	off	ADV	_	2 miles	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Half a mile off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 mile	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mile	det
3	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 mile	compound:prt

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

Option 3

Far off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 off	advmod
2	off	off	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

A furlong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 furlong	det
2	furlong	furlong	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.

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