Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince l…

At what hour did the narrator arrive at the gates of the city of Bagdad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: arrive · To what, where: gates

This is exam question 4 of lesson 172 «Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince loses his eye, his father's throne is taken, and the lovers' tomb is found» 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 arrive	obl
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	obl:unmarked
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 arrive	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrive	nsubj
7	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gates	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gates	det
10	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arrive	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gates	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Bagdad	case
15	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 city	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 arrive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past · do-support	the narrator			the gates of the city of Bagdad			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

At sunset

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

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

Option 2

At dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

At midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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