Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…
Which individual was dispatched by the Sultan to observe the movements of Prince Ahmed?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: dispatch, observe, move · To what, where: individual, movements, Prince Ahmed
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» 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 individual | det |
| 2 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dispatched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dispatched | aux:pass |
| 4 | dispatched | dispatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Sultan | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dispatched | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 observe | mark |
| 9 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dispatched | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 movements | det |
| 11 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 observe | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ahmed | case |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahmed | compound |
| 14 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 movements | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dispatched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispatch | past · passive | the Sultan | which individual | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | observe | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | the movements of Prince Ahmed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent movement=Topic | ||||
| 3 | move | Prince Ahmed | nom movement «act 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
A royal guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guard | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guard | amod |
| 3 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A female magician
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 2 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magician | amod |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A tall woman magician from the eastern hills who had served the Sultan for years
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 magician | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 magician | compound |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 7 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hills | amod |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 magician | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 served | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 served | aux |
| 11 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 hills | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 served | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 served | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · perfect | the eastern hills | the Sultan | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Attribute |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A wise old man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | 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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