Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

To which period of time does the fairy's sentence of transformation refer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence, fairy · What happens: do, refer, sentence · To what, where: sentence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 period	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	nmod
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairy	det
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sentence	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 fairy	case
10	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 transformation	case
12	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 refer	obl
13	refer	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sentence	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		the fairy's sentence	to which period of time	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Eventuality
2	refer	present	the fairy's sentence not said here		of transformation	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	sentence		the fairy			nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

A year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	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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