Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

What was the final condition of the genius at the conclusion of the contest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, conclude · To what, where: final condition, conclusion, contest

This is exam question 3 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	5 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 genius	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 genius	det
8	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 condition	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 conclusion	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 conclusion	det
11	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 condition	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 contest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 contest	det
14	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conclusion	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final condition		the conclusion of the contest		of the genius	tree rules
2	conclude			the contest					nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=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

a pile of smoking ashes on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ashes	case
4	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ashes	compound
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ashes	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a heap of ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ashes	case
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heap	nmod

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

Option 3

dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a charred body lying in the palace hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 body	det
2	charred	char	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 body	amod
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 body	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hall	compound
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	char	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lie	gerund	a charred body not said here			the palace hall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location

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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