Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

Which substance was the king's body anointed with prior to immolation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: be, anoint · To what, where: body

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» 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 substance	det
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anointed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 body	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 substance	acl
8	anointed	anoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 immolation	case
10	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 immolation	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 prior	fixed
12	immolation	immolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anointed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 anointed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which substance not said here	the king's body					tree rules
2	anoint	past	which substance					with immolation	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with immolation=Theme

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

Fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Balm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Balm	balm	NOUN	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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