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title: what time of day was it when they got to the palace? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: what time of day was it when they got to the palace? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

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what time of day was it when they got to the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** day, they · **What happens:** be, get

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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/2063-pg976-part22/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t11:1
# text = what time of day was it when they got to the palace?
1	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | day |  |  |  |  | of it | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | they |  |  |  | time | to the palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |

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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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Midday, sun shining bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t11:o1:1
# text = Midday, sun shining bright
1	Midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund | Midday sun |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Evening, sun going down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t11:o2:1
# text = Evening, sun going down
1	Evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | gerund | Evening sun |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Early morning, all grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t11:o3:1
# text = Early morning, all grey
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Midday, sun shining bright, right over the top of the cliff, dead hot

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t11:o4:1
# text = Midday, sun shining bright, right over the top of the cliff, dead hot
1	Midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund | Midday sun |  |  | the top of the cliff |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Location |

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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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