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title: At what hour did the narrator arrive at the gates of the city of Bag… — Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: At what hour did the narrator arrive at the gates of the city of Bagdad? Exam question 4 of lesson 172 «Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince loses his eye, his father's throne is taken, and the lovers' tomb is found» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince l…

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At what hour did the narrator arrive at the gates of the city of Bagdad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** narrator · **What happens:** arrive · **To what, where:** gates

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 172 «Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince loses his eye, his father's throne is taken, and the lovers' tomb is found» 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/172-pg128-part12/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:172-pg128-part12:e4:1
# text = At what hour did the narrator arrive at the gates of the city of Bagdad?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · do-support | the narrator |  |  | the gates of the city of Bagdad |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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At sunset

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:172-pg128-part12:e4:o1:1
# text = At sunset
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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At dusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:172-pg128-part12:e4:o2:1
# text = At dusk
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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At midnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:172-pg128-part12:e4:o3:1
# text = At midnight
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:172-pg128-part12:e4:o4:1
# text = Noon
1	Noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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