Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

no way, how late was Pythias when he got back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: be, get back · To what, where: Pythias

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Pythias	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 late	advmod
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 Pythias	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Pythias	cop
7	Pythias	pythia	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 way	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no way and Pythias not said here	Pythias				late property	tree rules
2	get back	past	no way and Pythias						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He arrived a full day late, long after the tyrant had given up hope

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl:unmarked
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 arrived	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 given	advmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 given	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tyrant	det
11	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hope	amod
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 given	compound:prt
15	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	He	given hope			day	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give up	past · perfect · passive		the tyrant				long property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 2

He was late by a whole week or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 so	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	3 late	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Just in time, right at the last moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 time	case
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
5	right	right	ADV	_	9 moment	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 moment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moment	amod
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

He got back a few hours after the deadline had already passed by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hours	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 passed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deadline	det
9	deadline	deadline	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passed	aux
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 passed	advmod
12	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	He				hour		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	pass by	past · perfect · passive		the deadline					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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