Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Which of the following accurately describes the condition of Amina's neck after she sang?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Amina · What happens: follow, describe, sing, condition · To what, where: neck

This is exam question 4 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	8 condition	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 condition	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 condition	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 condition	csubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 describes	advmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 condition	det
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 neck	case
10	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 neck	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Amina	case
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 condition	nmod
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 sang	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sang	nsubj
15	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 condition	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present			accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	Amina			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	condition			Amina's neck		nom condition «state 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

It was smooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smooth	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smooth	cop
3	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					smooth property	tree rules

Option 2

It was pale and unmarked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pale	cop
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 unmarked	cc
5	unmarked	unmarked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					pale property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

It was scarred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scarred	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scarred	aux:pass
3	scarred	scar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scar	past · passive		It					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was a mass of scars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mass	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mass	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mass	det
4	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 scars	case
6	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a mass				of scars	tree rules

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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