Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

To what form was the narrator transformed by the genius?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, transform · To what, where: narrator

This is exam question 4 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 form	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 form	nsubj
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrator	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 narrator	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 narrator	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 genius	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 genius	det
10	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transformed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 narrator	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the narrator				to form	tree rules
2	transform	participle		the narrator not said here				by the genius	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

That of a monkey with a golden chain around his neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 monkey	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 That	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 chain	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chain	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chain	amod
8	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monkey	nmod
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 neck	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 neck	nmod:poss
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chain	nmod

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

Option 2

A bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

That of a goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 goat	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goat	det
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 That	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That of a monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 monkey	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 That	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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