Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…
What advice did the tailor offer the prince regarding his means of subsistence?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tailor · What happens: offer, regard, mean · To what, where: prince
This is exam question 3 of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 offer | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tailor | det |
| 5 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offer | nsubj |
| 6 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offer | obj |
| 9 | regarding | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 means | nmod:poss |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 offer | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 subsistence | case |
| 13 | subsistence | subsistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 offer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · do-support | the tailor | the prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | of subsistence | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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 right answer
to cut firewood for sale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 cut | mark |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sale | case |
| 5 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | to-infinitive | firewood | for sale | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent firewood=Product for sale=Asset |
Option 2
to beg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 beg | mark |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
to steal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 steal | mark |
| 2 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
to trade horses for gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 trade | mark |
| 2 | trade | trade | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trade | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trade | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | to-infinitive | horses | for gold | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for gold=Co-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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