Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

What was the outcome of the archery contest in respect of Prince Ahmed's arrow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, respect · To what, where: outcome, arrow

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 contest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 contest	det
7	archery	archery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contest	compound
8	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 respect	case
10	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contest	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 arrow	case
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Ahmed	compound
13	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 arrow	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Ahmed	case
15	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 respect	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome				of the archery contest in respect of Prince Ahmed's arrow	tree rules
2	respect			Prince Ahmed's arrow					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

It was never recovered from the plain by anyone that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recovered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 recovered	advmod
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 plain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plain	det
7	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recovered	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 recovered	obl
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anyone	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recover	past · passive	anyone	It		the plain			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from plain=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was never recovered from the plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recovered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 recovered	advmod
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 plain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plain	det
7	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recover	past · passive		It		the plain			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from plain=Source

Option 3

It was lost in the sand dunes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 dunes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dunes	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dunes	compound
7	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		It		the sand dunes			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It was never recovered from the plain, though all the Princes searched for it long into the night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recovered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 recovered	advmod
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 plain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plain	det
7	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recovered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 searched	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 searched	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 Princes	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princes	det
12	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 searched	nsubj
13	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 searched	obl
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 searched	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 night	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 searched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recover	past · passive		It		the plain			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from plain=Source
2	search	past	all Princes				night	for plain; long property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

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