Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…
What was the fisherman's stated reason for delaying the second delivery of fish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated reason · What happens: state, be, delay, deliver · To what, where: stated reason, second delivery, fish
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reason | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fisherman | det |
| 4 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reason | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 fisherman | case |
| 6 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reason | amod |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 delaying | mark |
| 9 | delaying | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 reason | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 delivery | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 delivery | amod |
| 12 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delaying | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fish | case |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delivery | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 reason | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the fisherman's stated reason | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | delay | gerund | the fisherman's stated reason not said here | the second delivery of fish | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent delivery=Source | ||||
| 4 | deliver | fish | nom delivery «act transitive»: of=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
his illness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 illness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a broken net
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 net | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 net | amod |
| 3 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
the length of the way and a broken net
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 length | det |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 net | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 net | det |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 net | amod |
| 9 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the length of the way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 length | det |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | nmod |
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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