Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

Which material provisions are placed with the husband in the pit at the moment of his descent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: husband · What happens: place, descend · To what, where: material provisions, pit

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 material	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provisions	compound
3	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 placed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	aux:pass
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 husband	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 husband	det
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pit	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 descent	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 descent	nmod:poss
17	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moment	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 placed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	present · passive		material provisions		the pit	moment	with the husband	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pit=Destination
2	descend		husband						nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=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

Seven loaves of bread and a pitcher of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 loaves	nummod
2	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loaves	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pitcher	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pitcher	det
7	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bread	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pitcher	nmod

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

Option 2

Bread and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 water	cc
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bread	conj

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

Option 3

A lamp and oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 oil	cc
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lamp	conj

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

Option 4

Some figs, dates and a sack of grain for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 figs	det
2	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dates	punct
4	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 figs	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sack	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 figs	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 grain	case
9	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sack	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sack	nmod

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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