Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

What remedy was administered to the sorceress within the apartment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: administer · To what, where: remedy, sorceress

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 remedy	det
2	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 administered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 administered	aux:pass
4	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sorceress	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sorceress	det
7	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 administered	obl
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 apartment	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 apartment	det
10	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 administered	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 administered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer	past · passive		what remedy	the sorceress			within the apartment	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sorceress=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Water of the Fountain of Lions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Fountain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fountain	det
4	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Water	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Lions	case
6	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Fountain	nmod

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

Option 2

Healing tonic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	tonic	tonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Healing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	gerund						tonic property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Water of the Golden Fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 Fountain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fountain	det
4	Golden	Golden	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fountain	compound
5	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Water	nmod

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

Option 4

Liquor from the Silver Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 Spring	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Spring	det
4	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Spring	compound
5	Spring	Spring	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Liquor	nmod

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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