Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

Mate, how long did the ship wait for the prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ship · What happens: wait

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 wait	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	nsubj
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 prince	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · do-support	the ship					for the prince; Mate vocative; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

All day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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 · ✓ the right answer

Three hours, then it sailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sailed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hours	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sailed	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sailed	nsubj
6	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	Three hours				then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Four hours, then it set off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hours	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 set	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	Four hours				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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