Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

To what form did the genius's head transform at the outset of the combat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: form · What happens: do · To what, where: head transform, outset

This is exam question 1 of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 genius	det
6	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 transform	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 genius	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 transform	compound
9	transform	transform	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 outset	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 outset	det
12	outset	outset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 combat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 combat	det
15	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 outset	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	form	the genius's head transform		the outset of the combat			tree rules

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

a dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a scorpion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a giant bird with a scorpion's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 tail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scorpion	det
6	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 scorpion	case
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	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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