Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…

Wait, so how long had his mum and dad been dead, like really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dad · What happens: wait, have, be · To what, where: mum

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dead	cc
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mum	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 really	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 really	case
15	really	really	ADV	_	6 had	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past		his mum	long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient
3	is	participle	dad		dead property	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

Nearly four decades ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 decades	nummod
3	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ago	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Far longer than anyone in the kingdom had ever been alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 longer	advmod
2	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 alive	advmod
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 been	mark
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 been	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kingdom	det
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anyone	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 been	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 been	advmod
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 alive	cop
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle						alive, long property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Over eight hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Almost three hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	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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