Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

how long did the friendship last, like days or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: friendship

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2050 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home to grief, and the Giant Antaeus is introduced as friend of the Pygmies» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friendship	det
5	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	last	last	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 days	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 days	case
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 what	nsubj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the friendship				last, long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=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

ages and ages, like forever, long as the Giant lived, which was longer than anyone at the palace could remember

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 remember	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ages	cc
3	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ages	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 forever	case
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ages	amod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 lived	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 longer	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 longer	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 longer	cop
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 ages	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 anyone	case
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 longer	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 anyone	nmod
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 remember	aux
23	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Giant		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	ages and ages	than anyone; long property	tree rules
3	remember	could	ages and ages		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a long time, as long as they both were around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 time	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 around	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 around	nsubj
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 they	appos
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 around	cop
11	around	around	ADV	_	6 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					around property	tree rules

Option 3

ages and ages, like forever, long as the Giant lived, and even after he was gone the Pygmies kept his story alive

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kept	obl:unmarked
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ages	cc
3	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ages	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 forever	case
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ages	amod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 lived	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gone	cc
15	even	even	ADV	_	19 gone	advmod
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 gone	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gone	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux:pass
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 kept	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Pygmies	det
21	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kept	nsubj
22	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 story	nmod:poss
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	obj
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Giant			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · passive		he		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	keep	past	the Pygmies	ages and ages	alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

ages and ages, like forever, long as the Giant lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ages	cc
3	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ages	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 forever	case
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ages	amod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 Giant	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	advcl
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	ages and ages						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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