Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…

Which contrivance did the princess devise to recall the old woman from the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: contrivance, princess · What happens: do, devise, recall · To what, where: old woman, palace

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1853 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw meant for the vizier's son» 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 contrivance	det
2	contrivance	contrivance	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	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devise	nsubj
6	devise	devise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 recall	mark
8	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 devise	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recall	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woman	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	which contrivance			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	devise	present	the princess			tree rules
3	recall	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	the old woman	the palace	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent woman=Theme from palace=Source

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 letter from her dead uncle

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	from	from	ADP	_	6 uncle	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 uncle	nmod:poss
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 uncle	amod
6	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	nmod

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

Option 2

A rumour about a rebel army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rumour	det
2	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 army	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 army	det
5	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 army	compound
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rumour	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A story of royal elephants running wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 elephants	case
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 elephants	amod
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 story	nmod
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 elephants	acl
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 running	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	royal elephants not said here					wild property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A royal decree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 decree	det
2	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 decree	amod
3	decree	decree	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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