Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is c…
Enumerate the number of seas which intervene between the prince and his objective, according to Lady Jamila.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, seas · What happens: enumerate, intervene, accord · To what, where: number
This is exam question 4 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 | Enumerate | enumerate | 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 Enumerate | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 seas | case |
| 5 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 intervene | nsubj |
| 7 | intervene | intervene | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seas | acl:relcl |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intervene | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 objective | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 objective | nmod:poss |
| 13 | objective | objective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prince | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lady | punct |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 Lady | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 according | fixed |
| 17 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Enumerate | parataxis |
| 18 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lady | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Enumerate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enumerate | imperative | you not said here | the number of seas | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | intervene | present | seas | between the prince and his objective | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Thirteen seas beyond the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 seas | nummod |
| 2 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seas | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven seas, and then a river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 seas | nummod |
| 2 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 river | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 river | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 river | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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