Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

how long did Odysseus wait for his wife, like ten years or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Odysseus · What happens: wait

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» 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 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wait	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
4	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wait	nsubj
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 what	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · do-support	Odysseus					for Odysseus's wife; long property	vn exist-47.1 «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

twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

ten long years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	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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