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title: What time did the fisherman go out, like really early? — Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: What time did the fisherman go out, like really early? Test 11 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

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What time did the fisherman go out, like really early?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** go out

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t11:1
# text = What time did the fisherman go out, like really early?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past · do-support | the fisherman |  |  |  | time | early, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Late, at dusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t11:o1:1
# text = Late, at dusk
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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At dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t11:o2:1
# text = At dawn
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Early, by moonlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t11:o3:1
# text = Early, by moonlight
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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At noon, by sunlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t11:o4:1
# text = At noon, by sunlight
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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