Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…

how long was he walking in the forest, like forever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: walk · To what, where: forest

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 185 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escapes the snake, is rescued, gets his goods back, and meets cruel islanders» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walking	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walking	nsubj
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forever	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 forever	case
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 walking	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 walking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	he			the forest		forever, long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory

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

a day, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	vocative

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

seven days, no lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	conj

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

Option 3

more like a whole month of walking, no lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 month	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 more	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 walking	case
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 month	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 month	conj

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

Option 4

five days, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 honest	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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