Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

How long was the journey to the lake, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: journey

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 journey	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 journey	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 journey	det
5	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 journey	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 journey	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 journey	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 journey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the journey			then	to the lake; long 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 · ✓ the right answer

Three hours' journey away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 journey	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 hours	case
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 journey	advmod

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

Option 2

A full day's ride across the plain beyond the city walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 day	case
5	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 plain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plain	det
8	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	nmod
9	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	12 walls	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	compound
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride		a full day			the plain beyond the city walls			nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent across=place

Option 3

Three days away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 away	obl:unmarked
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Quite close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 close	advmod
2	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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