Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…
Which character severed the enchantress in two with a single blow of his sword?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, sword · What happens: sever, blow · To what, where: enchantress, two
This is exam question 1 of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 severed | nsubj |
| 3 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 enchantress | det |
| 5 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 severed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 two | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 severed | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 blow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 blow | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blow | amod |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 severed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 severed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sever | past | which character | the enchantress | two | with a single blow of character's sword | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantress=Theme | ||
| 2 | blow | character's sword | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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
The young king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Sultan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The fisherman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 guard | det |
| 2 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/169-pg128-part9/e1/