Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

Which object did the boy request in order to refresh himself after his bath?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, refresh · To what, where: boy request, object

This is exam question 4 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 request	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 request	compound
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 refresh	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 refresh	mark
10	refresh	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 request	acl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 refresh	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 bath	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bath	nmod:poss
14	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refresh	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the boy request					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	refresh	to-infinitive	which object not said here	object			after object's bath		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer

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 right answer

A melon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 melon	det
2	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Figs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Grapes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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