Test 13 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

How many nights was the Swallow gonna stay, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many nights · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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 nights	amod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stay	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Swallow	det
6	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stay	nsubj
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 stay	dep
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stay	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many nights				then	stay property	tree rules

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

Only the one night, that was what they agreed and then he'd fly off to Egypt after

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	nummod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 what	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 agreed	nsubj
10	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fly	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 fly	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fly	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fly	aux
15	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 agreed	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 fly	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Egypt	case
18	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fly	obl
19	after	after	ADP	_	10 agreed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	that		night	tree rules
2	agree after speech: agree	past	they			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly off	would	he	Egypt	then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to egypt=Result

Option 2

Just the one night, that was the deal and he'd leave at dawn

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	nummod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 deal	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deal	det
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leave	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	aux
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 deal	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 dawn	case
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the deal					tree rules
2	leave	would	he				dawn		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Just the one night, that was the deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	nummod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 deal	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deal	det
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the deal					tree rules

Option 4

Until the end of the week, maybe longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 end	advmod

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

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