Test 12 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

What time did the soldiers line up, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: time, soldiers · What happens: do, line up, innit

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldiers	det
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 line	nsubj
6	line	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 line	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 line	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	what time	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	line up	present	the soldiers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	innit	infinitive	the soldiers not said here	tree rules

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

Nine o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nine o'clock at night, by the light of the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 light	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 o'clock	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 moon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light			the moon					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Eight o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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