Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

State the official who first attributed the disappearance of the palace to enchantment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, official, palace · What happens: state, attribute, disappear · To what, where: official, disappearance

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 official	det
3	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 attributed	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 attributed	advmod
6	attributed	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 official	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 disappearance	det
8	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attributed	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disappearance	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 enchantment	case
13	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attributed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the official		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent official=Topic
2	attribute	past	the official	the disappearance of the palace	to enchantment; first property	tree rules
3	disappear		the palace			nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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

jeweler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the Sultan's head magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 magician	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sultan	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magician	compound
5	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Vizier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guard	guard	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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