Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

What quantity of stones did the owner of the nest elect to retain for himself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: do, retain · To what, where: owner

This is exam question 4 of lesson 183 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escapes the diamond valley on an eagle's meat and sails home with the merchants.» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 stones	case
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quantity	nmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 owner	det
7	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 elect	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elect	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 elect	compound
11	elect	elect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owner	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 retain	mark
13	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 retain	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what quantity of stones	the owner of the nest elect					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Eventuality
2	retain	to-infinitive	what quantity of stones not said here					for quantity	tree rules

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

Only one, a small stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	conj

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

Option 2

Two stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stones	nummod
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

None

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One stone, not the largest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stone	nummod
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 largest	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 largest	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 largest	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 largest	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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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