Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…

State the length of the journey from Bengal to the Persian capital, as recorded in the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: record · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 length	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 length	det
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 journey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 journey	det
6	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 length	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Bengal	case
8	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 journey	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 capital	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 capital	det
11	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 capital	amod
12	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 length	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 recorded	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 recorded	mark
15	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 length	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 narrative	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 narrative	det
18	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recorded	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 length	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	participle				the narrative			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in narrative=Destination

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

Two hours and a half, from the time of starting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 half	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 hours	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hours	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 starting	case
11	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod

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

Option 2

Half a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 day	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Four hours, counted from the moment of their landing

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	4 counted	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 counted	punct
4	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counted	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 landing	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 landing	nmod:poss
10	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	participle · passive		Four hours			moment		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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