Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

By what number of days did the metal man's boat progress before land was sighted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, sight · To what, where: boat progress, land

This is exam question 2 of lesson 178 «Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea, then frees a boy from an underground tomb» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	compound
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boat	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 progress	compound
12	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 sighted	mark
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sighted	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sighted	aux:pass
16	sighted	sight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 did	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		boat progress					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Eventuality
2	sight	past · passive		land					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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

Nine days of rowing without rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rowing	case
4	rowing	rowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	nmod
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 rest	case
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	nmod

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

Option 2

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 3

Thirty-one days of rowing over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Thirty	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rowing	case
6	rowing	rowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rowing	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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