Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

how long till someone opened that book again, like proper long?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: open · To what, where: book

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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	5 opened	advmod
3	till	till	ADP	_	4 someone	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 opened	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 long	case
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 opened	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	someone	that book			again	long property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=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

years and years went by, mate, like proper ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 years	cc
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 years	conj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 mate	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 by	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ages	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 ages	case
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ages	amod
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	years and years				like proper ages	by mate	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mate=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

years went by, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 mate	case
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	years					by mate	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mate=Location

Option 3

months went past, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go past	past	months	mate				past property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

like, weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	3 weeks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 like	punct
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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