Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

so what time of day does Scheherazade stop talking?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: time · What happens: stop, talk

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 stop	advmod
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
7	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stop	nsubj
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present · do-support	what time of day						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	what time of day not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

when the sun sets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 sets	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sets	nsubj
4	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	the sun						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

once the Sultan has finished his morning prayers and sits down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 finished	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sits	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prayers	nmod:poss
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prayers	compound
8	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 finished	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sits	cc
10	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sits	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	finish	present · perfect · passive		the Sultan	tree rules
2	sit down	present			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pray		his = he		nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

at the first crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 crow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crow	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 crow	amod
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

when it gets light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 gets	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	it	light					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

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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