Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…

Innit, how long were those needles going to take to wear out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: go, take, wear out

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 going	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 needles	det
7	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	nsubj
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wear	mark
12	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 take	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 wear	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Innit	long property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	to-infinitive	Innit not said here		vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	wear out	to-infinitive	Innit not said here		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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

An hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Several centuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 centuries	amod
2	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten long years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thousand	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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