Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

Real talk, how long was her hubby sick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: long hubby

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hubby	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hubby	amod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hubby	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hubby	nmod:poss
8	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hubby	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		her long hubby					tree rules

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

three quarters of a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 quarters	nummod
2	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 year	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarters	nmod

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

Option 2

two years and a half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 half	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 years	conj

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

Option 3

about four long months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 months	amod
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

for most of the year and a winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 most	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 year	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 most	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 winter	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 year	conj

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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