Exam question 3 · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

Upon what structure were the heads of the rejected suitors publicly displayed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: structure · What happens: be, reject, display · To what, where: heads

This is exam question 3 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heads	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heads	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heads	det
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 suitors	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 suitors	det
9	rejected	reject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 suitors	amod
10	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heads	nmod
11	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	12 displayed	advmod
12	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heads	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	structure	the heads	of the rejected suitors	tree rules
2	reject	participle				vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	display	participle	structure not said here		publicly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The battlements of the citadel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 battlements	det
2	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 citadel	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 citadel	det
5	citadel	citadel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 battlements	nmod

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

Option 2

The walls of the eastern palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
5	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	amod
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	nmod

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

Option 3

The roof of the royal stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 stables	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stables	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stables	amod
6	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roof	nmod

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

Option 4

The city gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gate	compound
3	gate	gate	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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