Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steal…

when's the next boat to Ebony Island, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: next boat, Ebony Island

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 202 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steals the talisman and Badoura takes her husband's place» 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 boat	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boat	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boat	amod
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Island	case
7	Ebony	Ebony	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Island	compound
8	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boat	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 boat	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the next boat	Ebony Island				tree rules

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

whenever enough passengers had paid for a place on the deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	5 paid	mark
2	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 passengers	amod
3	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 deck	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 deck	det
11	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · perfect · passive		enough passengers		the deck		for a place	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for place=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

once a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 once	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

every few months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 months	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 months	amod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

each new moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 moon	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moon	amod
3	moon	moon	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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