Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3…
What is the principal purpose of the prince's residence within the princess's household?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal purpose, residence · What happens: be, purpose
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1202 «Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3: the prince enters the garden and is taken for a madman» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 purpose | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 purpose | amod |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 residence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 residence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 10 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purpose | nmod |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 household | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 household | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 princess | case |
| 15 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purpose | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the principal purpose of the prince's residence within the princess's household | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | purpose | the prince's residence | within the princess's household | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent within=obl |
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
To live quietly and serve the princess as a madman until the king decides what to do with him
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 live | mark |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 serve | cc |
| 5 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 serve | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 madman | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 madman | det |
| 10 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 decides | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 decides | nsubj |
| 14 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | advcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 decides | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | to-infinitive | as a madman; quietly property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | the princess | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | decide | present | the king | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | with king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
Option 2
To discover the answer to the riddle so that he can avenge his brothers and win the princess
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 discover | mark |
| 2 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discover | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 riddle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 riddle | det |
| 7 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discover | obl |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 avenge | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 avenge | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 avenge | aux |
| 12 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 discover | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 avenge | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 win | cc |
| 16 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 avenge | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 win | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | to-infinitive | the answer | to the riddle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | avenge | can | he | his brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | win | present | he not said here | the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
Option 3
To seek the answer of the riddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 seek | mark |
| 2 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seek | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 riddle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 riddle | det |
| 7 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | to-infinitive | the answer of the riddle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer | the riddle | nom answer «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To discover the answer to the riddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 discover | mark |
| 2 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discover | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 riddle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 riddle | det |
| 7 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discover | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | to-infinitive | the answer | to the riddle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic |
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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