Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…

how often does the Phoenix burn himself up in his nest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Phoenix · What happens: burn up · To what, where: Phoenix, nest

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» 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 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	6 burn	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Phoenix	det
5	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 burn	nsubj
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 burn	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 burn	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nest	nmod:poss
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burn	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	present · do-support	the Phoenix	Phoenix		Phoenix's nest		often property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

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

every hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

once every hundred years in its nest of flame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 hundred	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 nest	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nest	nmod:poss
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 flame	case
9	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nest	nmod

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

Option 3

every thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

every hundred years, when the fire comes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 comes	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the fire				year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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