Test 4 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

No cap, how long did the locust story go on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: go on

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
8	locust	Locust	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 story	compound
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · do-support	no cap						vn function-105.2.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Like two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Like three weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Like a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 year	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Like two whole years of locusts eating everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 locusts	case
6	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 years	nmod
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 locusts	acl
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	locusts not said here	everything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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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