Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwi…

State the precise nature of the substance found upon the floor of the cave, as described in the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State · What happens: find, describe · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 4 of lesson 188 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwits the Old Man, grows rich, then is stranded on a cliff island» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
3	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nature	amod
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 substance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 substance	det
7	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cave	det
14	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floor	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 described	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 described	mark
17	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 narrative	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 narrative	det
20	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 described	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	State the precise nature of the substance					upon the floor of the cave	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	describe	participle				the narrative			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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

Rubies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ivory dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dust	amod
2	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ambergris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ambergris	Ambergris	PROPN	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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