Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

What was the cause of the narrator's loss of sight in one eye?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cause, one eye

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 loss	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loss	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 narrator	case
9	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sight	case
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loss	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 eye	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 eye	nummod
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cause		one eye		of the narrator's loss of sight	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 coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a spark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a flying ember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ember	det
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ember	amod
3	ember	ember	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a stone chip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chip	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chip	compound
3	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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