Test 12 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

Yo, how long did the twig take to turn into a tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: twig · What happens: take, turn · To what, where: tree

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 take	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 twig	det
7	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	nsubj
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 turn	mark
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	the twig					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn	to-infinitive	the twig not said here			a tree			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tree=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

a few days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

several months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 months	amod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

about a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	3 week	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	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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