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

What was the number of times each day that the fisherman resolved to cast his net?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: number, fisherman · What happens: be, resolve, cast · To what, where: day, net

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 times	case
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 times	nmod:unmarked
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 resolved	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fisherman	det
11	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resolved	nsubj
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 day	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cast	mark
14	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 resolved	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 net	nmod:poss
16	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cast	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the number of times each day		tree rules
2	resolve	past	the fisherman	each day not said here	tree rules
3	cast	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here	fisherman's net	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product

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 times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

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

Option 4

Every hour before dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hour	nmod

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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