Test 12 · ★ · Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla…

Ngl, how long had he been a scullion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: have, be · To what, where: scullion

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 678 «Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla and becomes a scullion» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scullion	nsubj
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 scullion	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scullion	det
9	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ngl					long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle	Ngl	a scullion					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 · ✓ the right answer

Like two years, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	3 years	advmod

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

Option 2

Like two whole years of scrubbing pots, straight up, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pots	case
6	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 pots	amod
7	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 years	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 up	advmod
10	up	up	ADV	_	7 pots	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cap	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cap	det
13	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	gerund							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Like three years, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	3 years	discourse
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	3 years	advmod

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

Option 4

About two years, for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 real	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	nmod

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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