Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…
Which Prince was awarded the hand of the Princess Nouronnihar by the Sultan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: award · To what, where: hand
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» 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 | 4 awarded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | awarded | award | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awarded | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Nouronnihar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Nouronnihar | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 10 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Sultan | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awarded | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 awarded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | award | past · passive | the Sultan | the hand of the Princess Nouronnihar | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal hand=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
Ahmed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Prince Ahmed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ali
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Prince Ali
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | 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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