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title: What was the number of times each day that the fisherman resolved to… — Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the number of times each day that the fisherman resolved to cast his net? Exam question 4 of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depe
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

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What was the number of times each day that the fisherman resolved to cast his net?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** number, fisherman · **What happens:** be, resolve, cast · **To what, where:** day, net

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/164-pg128-part4/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:e4:1
# text = What was the number of times each day that the fisherman resolved to cast his net?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the number of times  each day |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | the fisherman | each day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cast** | to-infinitive | the fisherman *not said here* | fisherman's net |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:e4:o1:1
# text = Three times
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Four times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:e4:o2:1
# text = Four times
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:e4:o3:1
# text = Twice
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Every hour before dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:e4:o4:1
# text = Every hour before dawn
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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