Test 3 · Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation

Before printing, how long would it take one person to make a copy of a long book?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: print, take, make, copy · To what, where: it, copy, long book

This is test 3 of lesson 25 «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» of the history 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 printing	mark
2	printing	print	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 take	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 printing	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 take	advmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	expl
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 person	nummod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 copy	det
14	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 book	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 book	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 book	amod
18	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 copy	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	print	gerund			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	would	it	long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument person=Destination
3	make	to-infinitive	a copy of a long book		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset copy=Product
4	copy		a long book		nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

One second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 second	nummod
2	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Months, copying every word by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copying	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Months	punct
3	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copying	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	gerund		every word			month	by hand	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme by hand=Destination

Option 3

About ten minutes with a quill and fast hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 quill	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quill	det
6	quill	quill	NOUN	_	3 minutes	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hands	cc
8	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hands	amod
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quill	conj

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

Option 4

It could never be done

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	5 done	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 done	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	could · passive		It					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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