Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

Identify the weapon with which the executioner was about to sever Aladdin's head.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, executioner · What happens: identify, be, sever · To what, where: weapon, head

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1432 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: the magician steals the lamp and Aladdin is nearly beheaded» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weapon	det
3	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 about	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 executioner	det
7	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 about	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 about	cop
9	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weapon	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sever	mark
11	sever	sever	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 about	xcomp
12	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 head	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Aladdin	case
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sever	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the weapon		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
2	is	past	the executioner		with the weapon; about property	tree rules
3	sever	to-infinitive	the executioner not said here	Aladdin's head		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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

cutlass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

scimitar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

curved scimitar of steel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	curved	curved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 scimitar	amod
2	scimitar	scimitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 steel	case
4	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scimitar	nmod

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

Option 4

dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dagger	dagger	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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