Test 11 · Life cycles

how long's a hen sit on her eggs before they hatch

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hen sit, eggs · What happens: be, hatch

This is test 11 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world 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	root	root
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 long	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sit	det
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	compound
6	sit	sit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eggs	nmod:poss
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sit	nmod
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 hatch	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hatch	nsubj
12	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a hen sit on her eggs					long property	tree rules
2	hatch	present	eggs = egg						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

About three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About three weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

About three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About one week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 week	nummod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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