Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Which of the following correctly identifies the eye that was blind in each of the Calenders?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eye · What happens: follow, identify, be · To what, where: eye, each

This is exam question 2 of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 blind	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blind	cop
11	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 each	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 blind	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Calenders	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Calenders	det
16	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 each	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the eye		correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	is	past	the eye		each	blind property	tree rules

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 eye above the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	above	above	ADP	_	5 nose	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nose	det
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eye	nmod

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

Option 2

The left eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eye	det
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eye	amod
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The eye on the side of the face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 side	det
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eye	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 face	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 face	det
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The right eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eye	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eye	amod
3	eye	eye	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.

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