Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

What was the occupation of the fisherman at the time when he cast his net?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, cast · To what, where: occupation, net

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 occupation	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 occupation	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 occupation	det
4	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fisherman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fisherman	det
7	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occupation	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occupation	nmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cast	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cast	nsubj
13	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 net	nmod:poss
15	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 occupation	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the occupation			time	of the fisherman	tree rules
2	cast	past	he	his net					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product

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

Net-making

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 making	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Net	punct
3	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Mending nets for the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mending	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	gerund		nets				for the king	tree rules

Option 4

Selling fish at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 market	case
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		fish		market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent fish=Theme at market=Asset

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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