Exam question 1 · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…
Which object did the gazelle convey to the sultan as a pledge?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: convey · To what, where: sultan
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 convey | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 convey | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gazelle | det |
| 5 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 convey | nsubj |
| 6 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sultan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sultan | det |
| 9 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 convey | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 pledge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pledge | det |
| 12 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 convey | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 convey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | past · do-support | which object | the sultan | as a pledge | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sultan=Recipient |
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 huge bright jewel from the cave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jewel | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jewel | amod |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jewel | amod |
| 4 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jewel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a precious shining diamond wrapped in cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 diamond | det |
| 2 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 diamond | amod |
| 3 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 diamond | amod |
| 4 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 diamond | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cloth | case |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | a precious shining diamond not said here | cloth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
Option 3
a small golden coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coin | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coin | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coin | amod |
| 4 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a large bright diamond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 diamond | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 diamond | amod |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 diamond | amod |
| 4 | diamond | diamond | 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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