Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…
How long, according to the King of the Black Isles, was the true journey to the capital?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, be · To what, where: true journey
This is exam question 3 of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 journey | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 King | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 according | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 journey | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Isles | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Isles | det |
| 10 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Isles | amod |
| 11 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 King | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 journey | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 journey | det |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journey | amod |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 capital | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 capital | det |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 journey | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the true journey | accord the King of the Black Isles; to the capital; 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
Almost two years' march
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 march | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 years | case |
| 5 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three days
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A week's ride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ride | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 week | case |
| 4 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | a week | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A whole year's journey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 year | case |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | a whole year | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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