Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…
Which of the following words, when spoken by the Captain, caused the rock door to open?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rock door · What happens: follow, speak, cause, open · To what, where: rock door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1470 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 words | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoken | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 spoken | advmod |
| 8 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 words | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Captain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Captain | det |
| 11 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spoken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caused | punct |
| 13 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caused | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 open | mark |
| 18 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 caused | xcomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | by the Captain | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cause | past | the rock door | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | the rock door not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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
Sesame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sesame | sesame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hocus pocus open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hocus | Hocus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | pocus | pocus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hocus | flat |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hocus | list |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Open the door, Sesame, right now please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sesame | punct |
| 5 | Sesame | Sesame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sesame | punct |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 now | advmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Open | advmod |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 Open | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the door | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"Open, Sesame!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 2 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sesame | punct |
| 4 | Sesame | sesame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Open | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
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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