Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

Bro, how long did she give her to pick them out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: give, pick out · To what, where: her, them

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 give	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pick	mark
10	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pick	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 pick	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	she		her = she			Bro vocative; long property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	pick out	to-infinitive	she not said here	them = they					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

Ten minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

One hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hour	nummod
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Half an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 hour	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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