Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…
Which being was held responsible for the princess's affliction?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: hold, afflict
This is exam question 1 of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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 | 4 held | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 held | aux:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | aux:pass |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 held | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 affliction | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 affliction | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 10 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund · passive | for the princess's affliction; responsible property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | afflict | the princess | nom affliction «state transitive»: poss=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
The envious man who pushed the dervish into the well at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pushed | nsubj |
| 5 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dervish | det |
| 7 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | the envious man | the dervish | the well | night | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dervish=Theme into well=Destination |
Option 2
Zoroaster, son of Hafiz
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoroaster | zoroaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Zoroaster | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hafiz | case |
| 5 | Hafiz | Hafiz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ahriman, the cruel genie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahriman | Ahriman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 genie | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 genie | det |
| 4 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 genie | amod |
| 5 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ahriman | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Maimoum, son of Dimdim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maimoum | Maimoum | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Maimoum | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Dimdim | case |
| 5 | Dimdim | Dimdim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/175-pg128-part15/e1/