Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

Specify the reward which the thief offered the cobbler before requesting to be shown the house.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, thief · What happens: specify, offer, request, show · To what, where: reward, house

This is exam question 4 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reward	det
3	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 offered	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thief	det
6	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offered	nsubj
7	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reward	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cobbler	det
9	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offered	obj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 requesting	mark
11	requesting	request	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 offered	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 shown	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 shown	aux:pass
14	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 requesting	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shown	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the reward	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
2	offer	past	the thief	the reward	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent which=Goal cobbler=Theme
3	request	gerund	the thief not said here		vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	show	to-infinitive · passive	the thief not said here	the house	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: house=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

a bag of silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 silver	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 2

a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a piece of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	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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