Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress p…

Did the fog clear fast, or was it a long old wait?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fog · What happens: do, be · To what, where: fog, long old wait

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 697 «Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fog	det
3	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fog	xcomp
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wait	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 wait	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wait	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wait	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wait	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wait	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wait	amod
13	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the fog				fast property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fog=Eventuality
2	is a	past	fog	a long old wait					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

It cleared fast, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cleared	nsubj
2	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 cleared	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleared	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	past	It					mate vocative; fast property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

Option 2

It cleared up within a few days, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cleared	nsubj
2	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 cleared	compound:prt
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cleared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear up	past	It				day		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It lasted a whole month, so long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lasted	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 lasted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				month	long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It cleared quickly, after a short wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cleared	nsubj
2	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 cleared	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 wait	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wait	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wait	amod
8	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	past	It				after a short wait	quickly property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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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