Exam question 1 · Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the…

Upon which hand-road did the prince, having been counselled, proceed at the parting of the ways?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hand road, ways · What happens: do, counsell, proceed, part · To what, where: prince, parting

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1205 «Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the negro guards and reaches the Simurgh's garden» 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 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 did	obl
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 road	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 counselled	punct
10	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 counselled	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 counselled	aux:pass
12	counselled	counsell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 did	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proceed	punct
14	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 counselled	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 parting	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parting	det
17	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proceed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 ways	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ways	det
20	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 parting	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	hand road	the prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	counsell	gerund · perfect · passive	hand road not said here			tree rules
3	proceed	infinitive	hand road not said here		the parting of the ways	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	part		the ways			nom parting «act intransitive»: of=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 middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 left	det
2	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 right	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

the northern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 northern	det
2	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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