Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…
How long did her trip take, mate?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trip, her · What happens: take, trip
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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 | 6 take | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trip | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | vocative |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | her trip | mate vocative; long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | trip | her = she | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Eight whole days of crawling, mate, with no rest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 crawling | case |
| 5 | crawling | crawling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crawling | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rest | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rest | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nine days, mate
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 |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Eight days, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ages, mate, she took the whole summer to get there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ages | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 summer | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 summer | amod |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | csubj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ages's mate | summer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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