Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…

For what length of time did the man walk through the dark forest before reaching the giant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: walk, reach · To what, where: dark forest, giant

This is exam question 2 of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 length	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 length	nsubj
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 length	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	nsubj
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	13 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forest	amod
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 reaching	mark
15	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 walk	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reaching	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	the man			the dark forest		for length of time	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	reach	gerund	the man not said here	the giant					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent giant=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fourteen days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fourteen	fourteen	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 2

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.

Option 3

Twenty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	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

Nine days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	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.

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