Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

What object did the impostor request in order to adorn the great dome?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, adorn · To what, where: impostor request, great dome

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	object	object	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	6 request	det
5	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 request	compound
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 adorn	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 adorn	mark
10	adorn	adorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 request	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dome	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dome	amod
13	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 adorn	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the impostor request					tree rules
2	adorn	to-infinitive	object not said here	the great dome					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dome=Destination

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

a great roc's egg hung from the middle of the dome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 roc	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roc	amod
3	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 egg	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 roc	case
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	nsubj
6	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 dome	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dome	det
12	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	a great roc's egg			the middle of the dome			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a roc's egg and a golden chain hung from the top of the dome

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 roc	det
2	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 egg	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 roc	case
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 chain	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chain	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chain	amod
8	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 egg	conj
9	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 top	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 top	det
12	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dome	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dome	det
15	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle	a roc's egg and a golden chain			the top of the dome			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a roc's egg suspended from its centre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 roc	det
2	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 egg	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 roc	case
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suspended	nsubj
5	suspended	suspend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 centre	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 centre	nmod:poss
8	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suspended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suspend	past	a roc's egg			egg's centre			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from centre=Source

Option 4

a silver bell hung from the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bell	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	compound
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	a silver bell			the roof			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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