Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…

How long did the twelve men keep at him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: twelve men · What happens: do, keep

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 777 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Heinel is set adrift, wins magic gifts, and finds his queen about to remarry» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						long property	tree rules
2	keep	present	the twelve men					at him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at he=Location

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

Ages, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ages	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ages	vocative

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

Option 2

Three hours or so, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mate	compound
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 so	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 hours	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hours	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Till the sun came up, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the sun					mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One whole night, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	conj

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

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