Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

By what means did the Princess render the magician incapable of further mischief?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: mean, render · To what, where: magician incapable

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1433 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: the palace flies home, and the magician's brother, disguised as Fatima, asks for a roc's egg» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 render	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 render	nsubj
7	render	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 incapable	det
9	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 incapable	compound
10	incapable	incapable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 render	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mischief	case
12	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mischief	amod
13	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 incapable	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	render	past · do-support	the Princess	the magician incapable of further mischief					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incapable=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

by a trick at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 trick	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trick	det
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trick	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

by secretly pouring a sleeping powder into his wine cup at the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 pouring	mark
2	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 pouring	advmod
3	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 powder	det
5	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 powder	compound
6	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pouring	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 cup	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cup	nmod:poss
9	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cup	compound
10	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pouring	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feast	det
13	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pouring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	gerund		a sleeping powder		his wine cup		at the feast; secretly property	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent powder=Theme into cup=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by administering a powder in his cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 administering	mark
2	administering	administer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 powder	det
4	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 administering	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cup	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cup	nmod:poss
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 administering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer	gerund		a powder		his cup			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent powder=Theme

Option 4

by a spell in his wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 spell	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wine	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wine	nmod:poss
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spell	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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