Exam question 3 · Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the…
Which sovereign of the lions did lead the army to the aid of the prince?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sovereign · What happens: lead · To what, where: army, aid
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sovereign | det |
| 2 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lions | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lions | det |
| 5 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sovereign | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lead | aux |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 aid | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 aid | det |
| 12 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aid | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · do-support | which sovereign of the lions | the army | the aid of the prince | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme to aid=Destination |
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
Taram-taq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taram | Taram | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taram | punct |
| 3 | taq | taq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taram | list |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Simurgh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Simurgh | det |
| 2 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
their king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 king | nmod:poss |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Jamila
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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