Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1:…

Dead serious, how long were they travelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: travel

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 462 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1: Prince Ivan defeats the whirlwind Vikhor and sets out to woo Anna the Fair» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serious	amod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 travelling	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 serious	advmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 travelling	aux
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 travelling	nsubj
8	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 travelling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · progressive	they						vn run-51.3.2-1 «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

Seven years of walking through forests and deserts and hills and cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 walking	mark
4	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 years	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 forests	case
6	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walking	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 deserts	cc
8	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forests	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hills	cc
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forests	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cities	cc
12	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forests	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	Seven years not said here			forests and deserts and hills and cities			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory

Option 2

Three months, loads of rivers

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	4 loads	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 months	punct
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loads	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three years, loads of countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loads	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 countries	case
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loads	nmod

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

Option 4

Three years, loads of countries and rivers and mountains and seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loads	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 countries	case
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loads	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rivers	cc
8	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 countries	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mountains	cc
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 countries	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seas	cc
12	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 countries	conj

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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