Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

By what means did the king retrieve the blind peris from the well?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: mean, retrieve · To what, where: blind peris, well

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 retrieve	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 retrieve	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retrieve	nsubj
7	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peris	det
9	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 peris	amod
10	peris	peris	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retrieve	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 well	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 well	det
13	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retrieve	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 retrieve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	retrieve	past · do-support	the king	the blind peris		the well			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent peris=Theme from well=Source

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

A turban

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 turban	det
2	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

By rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 rope	case
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Using his cloak to lift them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cloak	nmod:poss
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lift	mark
5	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Using	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		his cloak					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
2	lift	to-infinitive		them = they					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Using his turban as a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 turban	nmod:poss
3	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 rope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		his turban				as a rope	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent turban=Duration as rope=Attribute

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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