Test 9 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w…

Wait, how long did Nigel sit on that sum, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Nigel · What happens: wait, sit · To what, where: sum

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 sit	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	aux
6	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 sum	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 sum	det
10	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fam	punct
12	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sum	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past · do-support	Nigel			that sum and fam		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sum=Location

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

Two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Nine hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Like seven hours, maybe a bit more than that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 hours	case
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 more	punct
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 more	obl:unmarked
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hours	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 more	obl

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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