Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: t…

What period of confinement did Aladdin endure in the cave before using the ring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: endure, use · To what, where: period, cave, ring

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1431 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: the lamp, the genie, and a stolen wedding night» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 endure	obj
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 endure	obl:unmarked
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 confinement	case
4	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 period	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 endure	aux
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 endure	nsubj
7	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 endure	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 using	mark
12	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 endure	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ring	det
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 using	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 endure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endure	past · do-support	Aladdin	period of confinement		the cave			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Circumstance
2	use	gerund	Aladdin not said here	the ring					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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

Three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Two whole days in the dark before the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 ring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Two weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	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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