Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bulle…

How many days did the prince sit waiting with the gun, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many days, prince · What happens: do, sit, wait

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2013 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bullet and the cowboy's message» 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 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 sit	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 gun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gun	det
11	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	7 sit	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	many days		tree rules
2	sit	present	the prince		tree rules
3	wait	gerund	the prince not said here	with the gun	vn exist-47.1 «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

Three days, every morning, then on the third he finally took the shot at the whale

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 morning	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 took	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 third	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 third	det
10	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
12	finally	finally	ADV	_	13 took	advmod
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shot	det
15	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 whale	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 whale	det
18	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Three days	the shot		the third	then	at the whale; finally property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shot=Theme on third=Destination

Option 2

Two days, the second one he finally shot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shot	nsubj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 shot	advmod
9	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	he	the second one not said here				finally property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Three days, and on the third he fired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fired	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fired	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fired	cc
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 third	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 third	det
7	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fired	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fired	nsubj
9	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire	past	he			the third	day		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on third=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three days, the third one he finally shot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shot	nsubj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 shot	advmod
9	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	he	the third one not said here				finally property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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