Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…
In what manner did the Princess Nouronnihar regain consciousness?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess Nouronnihar · What happens: regain · To what, where: consciousness, manner
This is exam question 4 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 regain | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 regain | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Nouronnihar | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 7 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 regain | nsubj |
| 8 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 regain | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 regain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regain | past · do-support | the Princess Nouronnihar | consciousness | what manner | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=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 · ← Mova's choice
Like a person waking from a cold bath in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 person | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | waking | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 person | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bath | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bath | det |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bath | amod |
| 8 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waking | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 winter | case |
| 10 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | gerund | a person not said here | a cold bath | winter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Like a child at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dawn | case |
| 5 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In a fright, calling for her father the Sultan in tears at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fright | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fright | det |
| 3 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 calling | punct |
| 5 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fright | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calling | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tears | case |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 father | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 calling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | a fright not said here | for her father in tears | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at once=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
As from a sound sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sleep | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sleep | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sleep | compound |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 As | obl |
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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