Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…
Oi, how long was the king's feast going on for?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feast · What happens: be, go on · To what, where: feast
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 feast | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 feast | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 feast | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oi | appos |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 feast | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 going | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 going | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's feast | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | gerund | the king's feast not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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
A whole week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 week | amod |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
One day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three days
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two days
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 | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/759-pg2591-part35/t6/