Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

Which city did Prince Ali enter upon his arrival in Persia?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: city · What happens: do, arrive · To what, where: Ali, Persia

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ali	nmod:desc
5	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	enter	ent	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 did	advmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 arrival	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arrival	nmod:poss
9	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Persia	case
11	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 arrival	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which city	Ali Prince				upon city's arrival in Persia; ent property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Eventuality
2	arrive		city			Persia			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

The walled city of Bagdad on the river Tigris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
2	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 city	amod
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Bagdad	case
5	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 city	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 Tigris	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tigris	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tigris	compound
9	Tigris	Tigris	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wall	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Schiraz

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Schiraz	Schiraz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Bisnagar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bisnagar	Bisnagar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Samarcand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Samarcand	Samarcand	PROPN	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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