Test 6 · ★ · Ungarische Mährchen, The Prince and the Crows, part 2: the…

Wait, how long did the prince hold off before getting hitched?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: wait, hold off, hitch

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 662 «Ungarische Mährchen, The Prince and the Crows, part 2: the Goldtown bride and the three warnings on the bridge» 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	_	8 hold	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hold	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hold	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	nsubj
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 hold	compound:prt
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 hitched	mark
11	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hitched	aux:pass
12	hitched	hitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hold	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold off	past · do-support	the prince	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hitch	gerund · passive	the prince not said here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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

twelve years since dad left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	nsubj
3	since	since	ADP	_	4 dad	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle	twelve years since dad						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ten years since dad left

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	5 left	nsubj
3	since	since	ADP	_	4 dad	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle	ten years since dad						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

well over ten years since his dad rode off to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	well	well	INTJ	_	8 rode	discourse
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 years	case
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 well	obl
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 rode	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	nsubj
8	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 rode	compound:prt
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fight	mark
11	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rode	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride off	past	his dad						tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	his dad not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

ten years since dad left for the war in the east

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
3	since	since	ADP	_	4 dad	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dad	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 war	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 war	det
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 east	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 east	det
11	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		dad not said here				in the east result; for the war	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in east=Result

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