Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Which item did the Fairy Paribanou first present to Prince Ahmed at the outset of his errand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: item · What happens: do · To what, where: Paribanou first present, outset

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» 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 item	det
2	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 present	det
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Paribanou	compound
6	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 present	compound
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 present	amod
8	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Ahmed	case
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ahmed	compound
11	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 present	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 outset	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 outset	det
14	outset	outset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 errand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 errand	nmod:poss
17	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 outset	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which item	the Paribanou first present		the outset of item's errand		to Prince Ahmed	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Eventuality

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

a bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a golden ring for luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 luck	case
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a clew of thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clew	det
2	clew	clew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 thread	case
4	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clew	nmod

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

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