Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

In what manner does the king respond when Sindbad inquires after foreign persons?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: do, inquire · To what, where: king respond, manner

This is exam question 2 of lesson 186 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becomes rich on a strange island, then is buried alive with his dead wife and survives by killing newcomers.» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 respond	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 respond	compound
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 inquires	advmod
9	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 inquires	nsubj
10	inquires	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	advcl
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 persons	case
12	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 persons	amod
13	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 inquires	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the king respond		what manner			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	inquire speech: other	present	Sindbad				after foreign persons		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

With a heartless and indifferent smile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	6 smile	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 smile	det
3	heartless	heartless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smile	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 indifferent	cc
5	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heartless	conj
6	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

With a cruel, mocking grin and a dismissive wave, speaking as if the question were absurd

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	6 grin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grin	det
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grin	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mocking	punct
5	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 grin	amod
6	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 absurd	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wave	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wave	det
9	dismissive	dismissive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wave	amod
10	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grin	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speaking	punct
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 grin	acl
13	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 question	case
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 as	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 question	det
16	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speaking	obl
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 absurd	cop
18	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	gerund	a cruel mocking grin and a dismissive wave not said here	as the question	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a cruel mocking grin and a dismissive wave	absurd property	tree rules

Option 3

With an uncaring and wicked sort of smirk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	6 sort	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
3	uncaring	uncaring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sort	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wicked	cc
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 uncaring	conj
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 smirk	case
8	smirk	smirk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			smirk					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

With a mocking and unfeeling grin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 mocking	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mocking	det
3	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grin	cc
5	unfeeling	unfeeling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grin	amod
6	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mocking	conj

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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