Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

In what manner did the Sultan proceed in order to investigate the lake upon the mountain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: do, proceed, investigate · To what, where: manner, order, lake

This is exam question 1 of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 proceed	nsubj
7	proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proceed	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 investigate	mark
11	investigate	investigate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 proceed	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 investigate	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 mountain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mountain	det
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lake	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			what manner		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	proceed	present	the Sultan		order		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	investigate	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	the lake		upon the mountain	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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 · ✓ the right answer

He went out alone at night

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	He				night	alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He rode out with his army

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	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 rode	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 army	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 army	nmod:poss
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride out	past	He					with his army	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He went out alone at night, dressed as a poor fisherman

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 fisherman	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fisherman	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fisherman	amod
12	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	He				night	alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dress	participle						as a poor fisherman	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He walked out at dawn

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	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 walked	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	past	He				dawn		vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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