Exam question 2 · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

Which magical formula did the storks overhear the magicians pronounce, enabling their restoration to human form?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magical formula, storks, magicians · What happens: do, overhear, pronounce, enable · To what, where: restoration

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	obj
2	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 formula	amod
3	formula	formula	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storks	det
6	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 overhear	nsubj
7	overhear	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 magicians	det
9	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pronounce	nsubj
10	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 overhear	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enabling	punct
12	enabling	enable	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pronounce	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 restoration	nmod:poss
14	restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 enabling	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 form	case
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 enabling	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	magical formula			tree rules
2	overhear	present	the storks			tree rules
3	pronounce	present	the magicians			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	enable	gerund	the magicians not said here	magicians's restoration	to human form	tree rules

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 word "Abracadabra," an Arabic expression of some difficulty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Abracadabra	punct
4	Abracadabra	Abracadabra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 expression	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 expression	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 expression	det
8	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 expression	compound
9	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 difficulty	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 difficulty	det
12	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expression	nmod

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

Option 2

The word "Sesame," a Greek expression of some difficulty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Sesame	punct
4	Sesame	sesame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 expression	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 expression	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 expression	det
8	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 expression	amod
9	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 difficulty	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 difficulty	det
12	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expression	nmod

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

Option 3

The word Mutabor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The word "Mutabor," a Latin expression of considerable difficulty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mutabor	punct
4	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 expression	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 expression	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 expression	det
8	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 expression	amod
9	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 difficulty	case
11	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 difficulty	amod
12	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expression	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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