Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Which of the following is the number of brothers who were transformed into dogs by the fairy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: follow, be, transform · To what, where: brothers

This is exam question 1 of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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	7 number	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 number	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 number	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 number	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 brothers	case
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 number	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 transformed	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 transformed	aux:pass
12	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 brothers	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 dogs	case
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 transformed	obl:agent
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fairy	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairy	det
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 transformed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 number	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present			of the number; of brothers	tree rules
3	transform	past · passive	dogs	brothers	by the fairy	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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