Exam question 4 · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

Which son was the final survivor, and by what manner did he proceed to the city?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: son, manner · What happens: be, proceed · To what, where: final survivor

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 survivor	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 survivor	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 survivor	det
5	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 survivor	amod
6	survivor	survivor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proceed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proceed	cc
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 proceed	obj
11	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 proceed	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proceed	nsubj
14	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 survivor	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 city	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 city	det
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proceed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 survivor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which son	the final survivor					tree rules
2	proceed	past · do-support	manner	the final survivor				to the city	tree rules

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

Saman, with the army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saman	Saman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 army	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 army	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 army	det
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saman	appos

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Almas-ruh-bakhsh, alone and without a following

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almas	alma	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bakhsh	punct
3	ruh	ruh	INTJ	_	5 bakhsh	discourse
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bakhsh	punct
5	bakhsh	bakhsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Almas	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 alone	punct
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 bakhsh	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 following	cc
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 following	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 following	det
11	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Almas	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Almas-ruh-bakhsh, with his brothers in tow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almas	alma	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bakhsh	punct
3	ruh	ruh	INTJ	_	5 bakhsh	discourse
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bakhsh	punct
5	bakhsh	bakhsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Almas	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brothers	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 brothers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Almas	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 tow	case
11	tow	tow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brothers	nmod

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

Option 4

Tahmasp-ruh-bakhsh, alone and on horseback

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tahmasp	Tahmasp	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bakhsh	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Tahmasp	punct
3	ruh	ruh	INTJ	_	5 bakhsh	discourse
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bakhsh	punct
5	bakhsh	bakhsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 alone	punct
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 bakhsh	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horseback	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 horseback	case
10	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bakhsh	conj

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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