Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Mate, how long did the king give the youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, give · To what, where: king, youth

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king				long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	give	present	Mate	the youth					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme

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

Four days, fair enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fair	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 fair	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three days, dead simple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 simple	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 simple	amod
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Two days, easy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 easy	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Five days, no bother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bother	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 bother	det
5	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos

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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