Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

How long was the mum stood in the freezing river, like, ages?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: mum, ages, freezing river

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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	5 mum	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mum	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mum	det
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
9	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 river	compound
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	6 stood	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ages	punct
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mum				long property	tree rules
2	stand	past	the mum	ages		the freezing river			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=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 · ✓ the right answer

six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	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 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

three hours

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	root	root

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

Option 4

all morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	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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