Test 6 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

Lol, what did the first dude's story last?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: story

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 dude	amod
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dude	case
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the first dude's story					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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

Four months, then he gave up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 months	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 gave	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he				then; month		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three months, then he blanked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blanked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 months	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 blanked	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blanked	nsubj
6	blanked	blank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blank	past	he				then; month		tree rules

Option 3

Three full months of rambling, and then he simply stopped talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 months	amod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stopped	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 rambling	mark
5	rambling	ramble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 months	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stopped	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stopped	nsubj
10	simply	simply	ADV	_	11 stopped	advmod
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	ramble	gerund	Three full months not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	he	then; month	simply property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund	he not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Three months, then he blanked on the story's ending completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blanked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 months	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 blanked	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blanked	nsubj
6	blanked	blank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 ending	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ending	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 story	case
11	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blanked	obl
12	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 blanked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blank	past	he			the story's ending	then; month	completely property	tree rules
2	end		the story						nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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