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title: which mountains open at midday, and which at midnight? — Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Dea… · tree and pragmatics
description: which mountains open at midday, and which at midnight? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
which mountains open at midday, and which at midnight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mountains · **What happens:** open · **To what, where:** midday

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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/461-pg22373-part53/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:t10:1
# text = which mountains open at midday, and which at midnight?
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | which mountains |  |  | midday | midnight |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Life one at noon, the Death one at midnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:t10:o1:1
# text = the Life one at noon, the Death one at midnight
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the mountain of Life at noon, the mountain of Death at midnight, both shut by dawn

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:t10:o2:1
# text = the mountain of Life at noon, the mountain of Death at midnight, both shut by dawn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Life one at midday, Death one at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:t10:o3:1
# text = the Life one at midday, Death one at night
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the one for Life at noon, the other for Death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:t10:o4:1
# text = the one for Life at noon, the other for Death
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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

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