Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…

What measure of gold coin did the narrator bestow upon his companion Hindbad?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: measure · What happens: bestow, measure · To what, where: gold coin

This is exam question 3 of lesson 185 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escapes the snake, is rescued, gets his goods back, and meets cruel islanders» 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 measure	det
2	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestow	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coin	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coin	compound
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measure	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bestow	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 narrator	det
8	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestow	nsubj
9	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 companion	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 companion	nmod:poss
12	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestow	obl
13	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 companion	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · do-support	what measure of gold coin					upon narrator's companion	tree rules
2	measure			gold coin					nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

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 full purse of a thousand sequins that he had carried from the island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purse	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 purse	amod
3	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sequins	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 thousand	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thousand	det
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 purse	nmod
7	sequins	sequin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 carried	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	aux
11	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sequins	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 island	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 island	det
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sequin	present	the full purse of a thousand						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	carry	past · perfect	purse			the island			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from island=Initial_Location

Option 2

Two hundred dinars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dinars	nummod
3	dinars	dinar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

All the sequins he had earned from selling the goods of the dead merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sequins	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sequins	det
3	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 earned	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 earned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 earned	aux
6	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 selling	mark
8	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 earned	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goods	det
10	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 selling	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 merchant	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 merchant	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 merchant	amod
14	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goods	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	past · perfect	all sequins						vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sell	gerund	all sequins not said here	the goods of the dead merchant					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One hundred sequins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sequins	nummod
3	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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