Exam question 2 · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…
What object was employed by the suitors to announce their arrival at the royal court?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: suitors · What happens: employ, announce, arrive · To what, where: arrival, royal court
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 employed | aux:pass |
| 4 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 suitors | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 suitors | det |
| 7 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 employed | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 announce | mark |
| 9 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 employed | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announce | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 court | amod |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announce | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 employed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | the suitors | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive | the suitors not said here | suitors's arrival | the royal court | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | |||
| 3 | arrive | suitors = suitor | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
Option 1
Two golden trumpets with silver mouths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 trumpets | nummod |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trumpets | amod |
| 3 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mouths | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mouths | compound |
| 6 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trumpets | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A brass gong with a silver stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gong | det |
| 2 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gong | compound |
| 3 | gong | gong | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 stick | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stick | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stick | compound |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gong | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Two jewelled drums with jewelled sticks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 jewelled | nsubj |
| 2 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jewelled | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sticks | case |
| 5 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sticks | amod |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jewelled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jewell | past | Two | drums | with jewelled sticks | tree rules | |||
| 2 | jewell | participle | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A silver horn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horn | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horn | amod |
| 3 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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