Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince l…

By what means did the narrator's right eye come to be lost?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, come, lose · To what, where: right eye

This is exam question 1 of lesson 172 «Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince loses his eye, his father's throne is taken, and the lovers' tomb is found» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
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 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 narrator	case
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eye	amod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	13 lost	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 lost	aux:pass
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 come	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	the narrator's right eye	tree rules
3	come	infinitive		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lose	to-infinitive · passive		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»

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

A sword blow in battle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blow	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blow	compound
3	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 battle	case
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blow	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The vizir ordered it removed in prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vizir	det
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj
5	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ordered	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 prison	case
7	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 removed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the vizir		it				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
2	remove not said to happen	participle	the vizir not said here			prison			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It was cut out by the guards during a hunt

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 cut	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux:pass
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 guards	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guards	det
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 hunt	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hunt	det
10	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut out	past · passive	the guards	It			during a hunt		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was torn out by the vizir while he was imprisoned

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 torn	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 torn	aux:pass
3	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 torn	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 vizir	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vizir	det
7	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 torn	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 imprisoned	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 imprisoned	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 imprisoned	aux:pass
11	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 torn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear out	past · passive	the vizir	It					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme
2	imprison	past · passive		he					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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