Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…
What did the prince agree to upon hearing the terms?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: agree, hear · To what, where: terms
This is exam question 4 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 agree | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agree | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agree | nsubj |
| 5 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 hearing | mark |
| 7 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 8 hearing | mark |
| 8 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 agree | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 terms | det |
| 10 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hearing | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 agree | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · do-support | the prince | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the prince not said here | the terms | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer term=Stimulus |
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
Death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yield
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yield | yield | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Surrender to the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Surrender | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Submission to death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 death | case |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Submission | 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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