Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Which of the following accurately identifies the physical feature shared by the ten young men as described in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, share, describe · To what, where: physical feature, ten young men, passage

This is exam question 2 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	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feature	det
8	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feature	amod
9	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
10	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 feature	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 men	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shared	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 described	mark
17	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 men	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 passage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 described	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present	the physical feature		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feature=Theme
3	share	participle	the physical feature not said here		by the ten young men	tree rules
4	describe	participle	the ten young men not said here	the passage		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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

a scar on face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scar	det
2	scar	scar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 face	case
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scar	nmod

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

Option 2

a shared weak left leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 leg	det
2	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 leg	amod
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leg	amod
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 leg	amod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	participle							tree rules
2	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

missing the left hand fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fingers	det
3	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fingers	amod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fingers	compound
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 missing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		the left hand fingers					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

blindness in the right eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 eye	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eye	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blindness	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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