Exam question 1 · Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the p…
What document did the prince grant the Brahmani in exchange for her paper?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: document · What happens: do · To what, where: prince grant, exchange
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» 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 document | det |
| 2 | document | document | 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 grant | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grant | compound |
| 6 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Brahmani | det |
| 8 | Brahmani | Brahmani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 exchange | case |
| 10 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 paper | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exchange | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what document | the prince grant | exchange for document's paper | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Eventuality |
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 promise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A parwana for the amount
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 parwana | det |
| 2 | parwana | parwana | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 amount | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 amount | det |
| 5 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 parwana | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A letter for the sum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sum | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sum | det |
| 5 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 letter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A bond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bond | det |
| 2 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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