Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…

To whom did the genius, disguised as an old man, return the narrator's personal possessions?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, narrator · What happens: do, disguise, return, possess · To what, where: genius, personal possessions

This is exam question 2 of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» 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

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

To the princess

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To the narrator at the palace gate

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To the narrator at the tailor's dwelling

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

Option 4

To the narrator in the garden

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

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