Test 4 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Rose-Leaf and Apple-Blossom, part 15: the…

Did the old man really walk for ages before he found anything? Oh my days, that's hard graft

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, that · What happens: walk, find, be · To what, where: anything, hard graft

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 675 «Pink Fairy Book, Rose-Leaf and Apple-Blossom, part 15: the prince finds his brothers, and the old man finds a baby girl» 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

Sentence 1: Did the old man really walk for ages before he found anything?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ages	case
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	advcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 found	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support					for ages		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	man	anything					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: Oh my days, that's hard graft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 days	discourse
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 days	nmod:poss
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 graft	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 graft	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 graft	cop
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 graft	amod
8	graft	graft	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	hard graft					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he walked for absolutely ages in the rain, nothing for ages, then he finally found something big

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 ages	case
6	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	7 ages	advmod
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 rain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rain	det
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 rain	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ages	case
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nothing	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 found	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
18	finally	finally	ADV	_	19 found	advmod
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 found	obj
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	he			the rain	for ages		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Trajectory
2	find	past	he	something			then	finally property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, he walked forever and found nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	he					forever property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	he not said here	nothing					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he wandered for ages, nothing for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wandered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ages	case
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wandered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nothing	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 wandered	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	he	nothing			for ages		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he wandered for ages through the forest and the fields, and found absolutely nothing for ages

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wandered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ages	case
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wandered	obl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fields	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fields	det
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forest	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
16	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	17 nothing	advmod
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 found	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ages	case
19	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	he			the forest and the fields	for ages		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	find	past	he not said here	nothing			for ages		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for age=Beneficiary

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