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

Which physical description of Schaibar is provided in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: description, provide · To what, where: physical description, text

This is exam question 4 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 description	nsubj
2	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 description	amod
3	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provided	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Schaibar	case
5	Schaibar	Schaibar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 description	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 provided	aux:pass
7	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 text	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 text	det
10	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provided	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 provided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	description							of Schaibar	tree rules
2	provide	present · passive		physical description		the text			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

he was very much hump-backed, with a bent neck and a grenadier's cap

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 backed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 backed	aux:pass
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 backed	nsubj:pass
5	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 backed	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hump	punct
7	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 neck	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 neck	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 neck	det
11	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 neck	amod
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 backed	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cap	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 grenadier	det
15	grenadier	grenadier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cap	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 grenadier	case
17	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 neck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	back	past · passive		he					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme neck=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he was very much hump-backed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 much	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 backed	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hump	punct
7	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 much	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					much property	tree rules
2	back	participle	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he was quite very thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thin	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 thin	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 thin	advmod
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					thin property	tree rules

Option 4

he was very much hump-backed, with a bent neck and a long beard

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 backed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 backed	aux:pass
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 backed	nsubj:pass
5	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 backed	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hump	punct
7	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 neck	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 neck	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 neck	det
11	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 neck	amod
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 backed	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beard	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beard	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beard	amod
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 neck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	back	past · passive		he					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme neck=Destination

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