Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Which of the following describes the immediate cause of the young man's death according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: follow, be, accord, die

This is exam question 1 of lesson 179 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident in the cave, then a lonely walk to a copper castle» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cause	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 cause	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cause	case
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cause	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
7	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cause	amod
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 death	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 death	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nmod
15	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 narrative	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 according	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 narrative	det
18	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present		of the immediate cause; of the young man's death; accord the narrative	tree rules
3	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	die		the young man		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 knife in his hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knife	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the knife entering his heart after Sinbad's fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	entering	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 knife	acl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entering	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 fall	case
7	Sinbad	Sinbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fall	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Sinbad	case
9	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	gerund	the knife not said here	his heart			after Sinbad's fall		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Destination

Option 3

a blade thrust by the old man's servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thrust	det
2	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrust	compound
3	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	9 servant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrust	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrust		the old man's servant						nom thrust «phenomenon intransitive»: by=agent

Option 4

the wound to his arm from an earlier fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wound	det
2	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wound	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 fight	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fight	det
8	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 fight	amod
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wound	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.

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