Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

Identify the item which the apothecary was asked to supply to Morgiana for her master.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, apothecary · What happens: identify, ask, supply · To what, where: item, apothecary, Morgiana

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 asked	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apothecary	det
6	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	aux:pass
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 item	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 supply	mark
10	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Morgiana	case
12	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 supply	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 master	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 master	nmod:poss
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 supply	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the item			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past · passive		the apothecary			tree rules
3	supply not said to happen	to-infinitive	the apothecary not said here		Morgiana	for apothecary's master	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to morgiana=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

some lozenges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 lozenges	det
2	lozenges	lozenge	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

some medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 medicine	det
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

salve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	salve	salve	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tea	tea	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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