Test 9 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless prin…

What time was the witch due home, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: time · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: witch due home

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1653 «Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless princes promise their unborn brother to a witch to escape a storm» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 home	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 home	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 home	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 home	compound
6	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 home	amod
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 home	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 home	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what time	the witch due home					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	what time not said here						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

at sunset today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sunset	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

in the evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in the late afternoon when the sun was low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 afternoon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afternoon	amod
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 low	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 low	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 low	cop
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afternoon	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun					low property	tree rules

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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