Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…

State the number of days during which Prince Bahman travelled before approaching the frontiers of Persia.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: state, travel, approach · To what, where: number, frontiers

This is exam question 2 of lesson 229 «Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman turns to black stone on the mountain» 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	during	during	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 travelled	obl
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 travelled	nsubj
9	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Prince	flat
10	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 days	acl:relcl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 approaching	mark
12	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 travelled	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frontiers	det
14	frontiers	frontier	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 approaching	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Persia	case
16	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 frontiers	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of days		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	travel	past	Prince		during days	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	approach	gerund	Prince not said here	the frontiers of Persia		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frontier=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

thirty nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

two weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

twenty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

ten days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	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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