Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

Which material composed the breastplate worn by the rider upon the brass statue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: compose, wear · To what, where: breastplate

This is exam question 1 of lesson 178 «Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea, then frees a boy from an underground tomb» 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 material	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 composed	nsubj
3	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breastplate	det
5	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 composed	obj
6	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 breastplate	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 rider	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rider	det
9	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worn	obl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 statue	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 statue	det
12	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 statue	compound
13	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rider	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 composed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compose	past	which material	the breastplate					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breastplate=Result
2	wear	participle		the breastplate not said here				by the rider upon the brass statue	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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

Brass coated in silver paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	coated	coat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Brass	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 paint	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paint	compound
5	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coat	participle		Brass not said here				in silver paint	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in paint=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Zinc

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Bronze alloy from the statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	compound
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 statue	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/178-pg128-part18/e1/