Test 8 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

How many times was Whittington lord mayor, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Whittington lord mayor

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mayor	nmod:unmarked
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mayor	cop
5	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mayor	compound
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mayor	compound
7	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mayor	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mayor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Whittington lord mayor and fam			time		tree rules

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 times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Three times, and then he retired to his country home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 retired	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 retired	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 retired	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 retired	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 retired	nsubj
7	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 country	nmod:poss
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retired	obl
11	home	home	ADV	_	7 retired	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	past	he				then; time	to his country; home property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Two times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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