Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

How long had he gone without scoff before he landed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: go, land

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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 gone	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 scoff	case
7	scoff	scoff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 landed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 landed	nsubj
10	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	he					without scoff; long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land	past	he						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

since early morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	since	since	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

since noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	since	since	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

for about two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 two	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

since dawn yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	since	since	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dawn	nmod:unmarked

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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