Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

Indicate the reason the magician gave for the lamp exchange when he cried in the street.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, magician · What happens: indicate, give, cry · To what, where: reason, street

This is exam question 4 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 magician	det
5	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 exchange	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 exchange	det
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchange	compound
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cried	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 street	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 street	det
16	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the reason			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reason=Topic
2	give	past	the magician	the reason not said here		for the lamp exchange	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for exchange=Asset
3	cry speech: express	past	magician		the street		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location

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

gold for old lamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 lamps	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lamps	amod
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gold	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

new lamps for old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lamps	amod
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 old	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lamps	nmod

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

Option 3

new gold for old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gold	amod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 old	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gold	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

old lamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lamps	amod
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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