Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…

How long did they just sit around doing nothing at sea, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: sit around, do · To what, where: nothing, sea

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 961 «Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a young Spanish couple sails toward Russia, but calm weather and then a storm blow their ship north» 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 sit	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sit	advmod
6	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 doing	mark
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sit	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 doing	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 sea	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit around	past · do-support	they					long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	gerund	they not said here	nothing		sea			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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

a few days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

two whole months of rain and waves, no sun at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 months	amod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 months	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waves	cc
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rain	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sun	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 months	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sun	nmod

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

Option 3

three long weeks, no breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weeks	amod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 breeze	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 breeze	det
6	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weeks	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

two whole months, no wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 months	amod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wind	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 months	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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