Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is c…
State the number of times the prince was required to leap over the garden wall before his surroundings were changed.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, times · What happens: state, require, leap, change · To what, where: number, prince, garden wall, surroundings
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1204 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is caught by Jamila, who breaks the spell and sends him off to find the Simurgh» 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 times | case |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 required | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 required | aux:pass |
| 9 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 times | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 leap | mark |
| 11 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 required | xcomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wall | compound |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leap | obl |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 changed | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 changed | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 changed | aux:pass |
| 20 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 leap | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of times | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | past · passive | times not said here | the prince | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leap | to-infinitive | times not said here | the garden wall | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | change | past · passive | his surroundings | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1204-pg3282-part5/e1/