Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

Those rocks, how far off were they, roughly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rocks · What happens: be · To what, where: rocks

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 rocks	det
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 they	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 off	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 off	advmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	2 rocks	advmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 they	cop
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 they	punct
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	8 they	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 they	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that rocks	rocks = rock				roughly property	tree rules

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

Four leagues, dead far, past the big sandy plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 leagues	nummod
2	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leagues	amod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plain	punct
7	past	past	ADP	_	11 plain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plain	amod
10	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plain	amod
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leagues	conj

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

Option 2

Two leagues, pretty far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 leagues	nummod
2	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 leagues	punct
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 leagues	advmod

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

Option 3

Four leagues, dead far, like a day's ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 leagues	nummod
2	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leagues	amod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ride	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 ride	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ride	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 day	case
11	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leagues	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride		a day						nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four leagues, dead far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 leagues	nummod
2	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 leagues	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod

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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