Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

What number of days did the gazelle request before the couple's departure?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: number, couple · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: gazelle request

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 days	case
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obl
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 request	det
7	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 request	compound
8	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	before	before	ADP	_	13 departure	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 couple	det
11	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 departure	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 couple	case
13	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	number	the gazelle request			before the couple's departure; day		tree rules
2	depart		the couple						nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

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 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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.

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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