Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

What was the cause of the princess's death?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cause, princess · What happens: be, cause, die · To what, where: death

This is exam question 4 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 death	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 death	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 princess	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the cause of the princess's death		tree rules
2	cause			the princess's death	nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
3	die		the princess		nom death «event intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

the fire she had in her heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fire			fire's heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a deep burning poison from the cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poison	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poison	amod
3	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poison	compound
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cup	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cup	det
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poison	nmod

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

Option 3

a long illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 illness	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 illness	amod
3	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

her burning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 burning	nmod:poss
2	burning	burning	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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