Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

How long ago did that lady snuff it, roughly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snuff · What happens: do · To what, where: lady snuff

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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 ago	advmod
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 snuff	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snuff	compound
7	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roughly	punct
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	snuff	that lady snuff				ago, roughly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=Eventuality

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

Nearly half a century back, long before the boy was born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 century	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 century	det
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	obl:unmarked
5	back	back	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 born	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 born	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 born	aux:pass
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		the boy					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Around fifty years back, when the house was still new and bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADV	_	2 fifty	advmod
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 back	obl:unmarked
4	back	back	ADV	_	11 new	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 new	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 new	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 new	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 new	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 new	advmod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bright	cc
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 new	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the house				still	new property	tree rules
2	be		the house not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nearly half a century back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 century	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 century	det
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 century	advmod

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

Option 4

Nearly a century ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 century	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 century	det
3	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ago	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root

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

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