Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

Of what material was the garment worn by the damsel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: garment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garment	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 garment	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garment	det
6	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 garment	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 damsel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 damsel	det
10	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worn	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the garment					tree rules
2	wear	participle		the garment not said here				by the damsel	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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 long robe of flowered green satin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 robe	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robe	amod
3	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 satin	case
5	flowered	flower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 satin	amod
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 satin	amod
7	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 robe	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	participle							vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

striped cotton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	striped	striped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cotton	amod
2	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

richly flowered satin with gold thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	richly	richly	ADV	_	2 flowered	advmod
2	flowered	flower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 satin	amod
3	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 thread	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thread	compound
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 satin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	participle						richly property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

flowered satin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flowered	flower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 satin	amod
2	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	participle							vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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