Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Mm, how long was that pain racket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: pain racket

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 598 «Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns a boy, tells of a stomach ache, and grumbles about schooling» 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	Mm	mm	INTJ	_	8 racket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 racket	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 racket	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 racket	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 racket	mark
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 racket	compound
8	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 racket	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		pain racket				long property	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

From supper until almost dawn the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 supper	case
2	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	until	until	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 dawn	advmod
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supper	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supper	obl:unmarked

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

Option 2

Nearly an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 hour	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Almost four hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About half a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 day	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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