Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

so the whole kingdom did what for seven days?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole kingdom · What happens: do

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kingdom	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kingdom	amod
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the whole kingdom				day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	participle							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

prayed daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	daily	daily	ADV	_	1 prayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past						daily property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

mourned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mourned	mourn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	participle							vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

danced madly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	madly	madly	ADV	_	1 danced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past						madly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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