Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

Which purse did the head first require the old woman to retrieve from the trunk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purse · What happens: do, require, retrieve · To what, where: head, old woman, trunk

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a 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 purse	det
2	purse	purse	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 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 require	advmod
7	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 require	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 retrieve	mark
12	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 woman	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 trunk	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trunk	det
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 retrieve	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	which purse	the head			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
2	require	present	which purse not said here	the old woman		first property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Precondition
3	retrieve	to-infinitive	which purse not said here	the old woman not said here	the trunk		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from trunk=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 · ← Mova's choice

the blue purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purse	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 purse	amod
3	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the green purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purse	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 purse	amod
3	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the red purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purse	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 purse	amod
3	purse	purse	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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