Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

To whom did the Fairy Paribanou address her admonition concerning the sorceress?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: her · What happens: do, concern, admonish · To what, where: Paribanou address, sorceress

This is exam question 3 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 address	det
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Paribanou	compound
6	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 address	compound
7	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 admonition	nmod:poss
9	admonition	admonition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
10	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sorceress	det
12	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Paribanou address	tree rules
2	concern	gerund		the sorceress	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sorceress=Experiencer
3	admonish		her = she		nom admonition «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

To the Sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 Sultan	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

To Ahmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Ahmed	case
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

To her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 her	case
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To Prince Ahmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 Ahmed	case
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ahmed	compound
3	Ahmed	Ahmed	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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