Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…
What designation did the king's account give to the woman in chains?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: designation, account, king · What happens: do, give, account · To what, where: woman
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 designation | det |
| 2 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 account | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 chains | case |
| 13 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 woman | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what designation | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | present | the king's account | the woman in chains | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | account | the king | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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
Gul, the Rose, daughter of the merchant of Basra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rose | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rose | det |
| 4 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gul | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gul | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Basra | case |
| 11 | Basra | Basra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 merchant | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rose | det |
| 2 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Gul, the Rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rose | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rose | det |
| 4 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gul | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Gul, the Rose of the king's garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rose | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rose | det |
| 4 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gul | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rose | nmod |
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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