Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 71: Rudy captures t…

How long is the steam-boat ride to Bernex, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boat ride · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 860 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 71: Rudy captures the eaglet and brings it to the mill, while the Ice Maiden mocks the railway» 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	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 long	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ride	det
5	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boat	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 steam	punct
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	compound
8	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Bernex	case
10	Bernex	Bernex	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ride	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
12	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	2 long	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boat ride to Bernex					long property	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

About half an hour, starting from Villeneuve at the far end of the lake, with a stop along the way

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	4 hour	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 hour	det:predet
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 starting	punct
6	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hour	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Villeneuve	case
8	Villeneuve	Villeneuve	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 starting	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
11	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 end	amod
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starting	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stop	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 stop	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stop	det
19	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	conj
20	along	along	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund	half hour not said here			Villeneuve	at the far end of the lake and a stop	along the way	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About half an hour, from Villeneuve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	4 hour	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 hour	det:predet
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Villeneuve	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Villeneuve	case
7	Villeneuve	Villeneuve	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hour	appos

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

Option 3

About a quarter hour, from Lausanne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	4 hour	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
3	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hour	compound
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Lausanne	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Lausanne	case
7	Lausanne	Lausanne	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hour	appos

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

Option 4

It takes about half an hour, leaving Villeneuve in the morning when the lake is calm and the mist is still rising

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 half	advmod
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 hour	det:predet
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaving	punct
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 rising	csubj
9	Villeneuve	Villeneuve	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obl
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 calm	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calm	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 calm	cop
17	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaving	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mist	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mist	det
20	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calm	conj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rising	aux
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 rising	advmod
23	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 takes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It		hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leave	gerund		Villeneuve	morning		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villeneuve=Theme
3	is	present	the lake			calm property	tree rules
4	rise	present · progressive	leaving		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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