Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…

What did the enchantress pronounce over the cup of water in order to make it boil?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: enchantress · What happens: do, pronounce, make, boil · To what, where: cup, enchantress

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 enchantress	det
4	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pronounce	nsubj
5	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 cup	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cup	det
8	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cup	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 order	case
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			the cup of water	in order	tree rules
2	pronounce	present	the enchantress				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive		enchantress			tree rules
4	boil	infinitive	enchantress not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Magic chants and rhymes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chants	amod
2	chants	chant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rhymes	cc
4	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chants	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Certain words of enchantment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 enchantment	case
4	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word			enchantment					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The name of the prince written three times upon the cup's rim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 prince	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	nmod
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 written	obl:unmarked
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 rim	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cup	det
11	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rim	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 cup	case
13	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle · passive		the name of the prince			time	upon the cup's rim	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	name			the prince					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A long prayer read slowly from a golden book of the old kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prayer	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prayer	amod
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 read	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 book	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 book	amod
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 kings	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kings	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kings	amod
13	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 book	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	a long prayer			a golden book of the old kings		slowly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source

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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