Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

Which relation of the deceased magician assumed the form of the holy woman Fatima?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: relation · What happens: decease, assume, form · To what, where: form, holy woman

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 relation	det
2	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assumed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 magician	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
5	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relation	nmod
7	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assumed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	nmod
14	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 woman	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 assumed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	decease	participle			vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	assume	past	which relation of the deceased magician	the form of the holy woman	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
3	form			the holy woman	nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

his elder sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

his younger brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the sultan

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	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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