Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

Within what period did the sultan stipulate that the hill be removed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sultan · What happens: stipulate, remove · To what, where: hill

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Within	within	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 stipulate	obl
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stipulate	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sultan	det
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stipulate	nsubj
7	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 removed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 removed	nsubj:pass
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 removed	aux:pass
12	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stipulate	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stipulate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stipulate	past · do-support	the sultan						tree rules
2	remove	infinitive · passive		the hill					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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

within forty days from the day the head spoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	within	within	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spoke	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the head				day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

after seven nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	ADP	_	3 nights	case
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nights	nummod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

within thirty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	within	within	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	thirty	thirty	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 · ✓ the right answer

within forty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	within	within	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	forty	forty	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.

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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