Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

Through what passage did the prince first gain access to the subterranean palace?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, gain · To what, where: prince, passage, access

This is exam question 4 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	Through	through	ADP	_	3 passage	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 passage	det
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
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 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 gain	advmod
8	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gain	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
12	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palace	amod
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 access	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince		what passage			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	gain	present		access				to the subterranean palace result; first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient access=Extent to palace=Result

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 gate beneath a cracked wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 wall	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wall	det
5	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wall	amod
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a secret tunnel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tunnel	det
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tunnel	amod
3	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a trapdoor beneath an iron ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trapdoor	det
2	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 ring	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trapdoor	nmod

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

Option 4

a stone slab under a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 slab	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slab	compound
3	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slab	nmod

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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