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title: so what time did the coach roll up, like midnight-ish? — Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what time did the coach roll up, like midnight-ish? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

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so what time did the coach roll up, like midnight-ish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** time, coach · **What happens:** do, roll up

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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/886-pg27200-part97/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t6:1
# text = so what time did the coach roll up, like midnight-ish?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ish	ish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll up** | present | the coach |  |  |  |  | like midnight ish | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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New Year's Eve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t6:o1:1
# text = New Year's Eve
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the very end of a long winter's day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t6:o2:1
# text = the very end of a long winter's day
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Christmas Eve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t6:o3:1
# text = Christmas Eve
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the last night of the old year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t6:o4:1
# text = the last night of the old year
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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