Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…

Fam, how long did the flight to Persia take?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: take

This is test 6 · ★ 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. 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flight	det
7	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Persia	case
9	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flight	nmod
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	Fam						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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

Three hours, I reckon

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	5 reckon	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hours	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Three hours						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Two and a half hours from the moment they set off, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hours	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 half	det
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 hours	compound
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 set	obl:unmarked
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 set	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	they	bruv			hour; moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Like the whole of one long morning, from dawn until the sun was high

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 whole	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whole	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 morning	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 morning	nummod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	amod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whole	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dawn	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whole	conj
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 high	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 high	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 high	cop
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dawn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun					high property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two and a half hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hours	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 half	det
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 hours	compound
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Two	conj

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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