Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

What was the prescribed number of arrows with which the statue was to be struck?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prescribed number · What happens: be, prescribe, strike · To what, where: statue

This is exam question 3 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	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	5 number	det
4	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 number	amod
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 arrows	case
7	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 number	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 struck	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 statue	det
11	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 struck	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 struck	aux:pass
13	to	to	PART	_	15 struck	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 struck	aux:pass
15	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 arrows	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the prescribed number of arrows			tree rules
2	prescribe	participle				tree rules
3	strike	past · passive	the prescribed number of arrows not said here	the statue	with arrows	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument

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 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Three arrows of lead and wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 arrows	nummod
2	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 lead	case
4	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrows	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wood	cc
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lead	conj

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

Option 3

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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