Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…
Which person conveyed Sindbad to the capital, where he was graciously received by the king?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person, king · What happens: convey, receive · To what, where: Sindbad, capital, person
This is exam question 4 of lesson 181 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the porter is summoned to Sindbad's feast and hears how the voyages began» 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conveyed | nsubj |
| 3 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conveyed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 capital | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 capital | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conveyed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 received | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 received | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 received | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 received | aux:pass |
| 12 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 13 received | advmod |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 conveyed | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 conveyed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | past | which person | Sindbad | the capital | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sindbad=Topic to capital=Recipient | |||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | the king | person | graciously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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 servants of the court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 servants | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a groom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 groom | det |
| 2 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the grooms of king Mihrage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grooms | det |
| 2 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Mihrage | case |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Mihrage | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Mihrage | Mihrage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grooms | 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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