Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

To whom is the king's letter addressed, and in what characters is it written?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: letter, king · What happens: be, address, write, letter · To what, where: characters

This is exam question 3 of lesson 189 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad floats out of a dark underground river and is welcomed in Serendib» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 addressed	obl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 letter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 addressed	nsubj
8	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 addressed	obl
13	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 written	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 written	aux:pass
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 written	nsubj:pass
16	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 what	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 addressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is	present			tree rules
2	address	past	the king's letter		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	write	present · passive		characters	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	letter		the king		nom letter «communication transitive»: 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

The Caliph, in gold letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 letters	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 letters	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 letters	compound
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Caliph	list

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Caliph, in blue characters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 characters	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 characters	case
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 characters	amod
6	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Caliph	conj

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

Option 3

The king, in blue characters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 characters	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 characters	case
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 characters	amod
6	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 king	conj

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

Option 4

The Prince of Serendib, in blue characters written on a long roll of silk

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Serendib	case
4	Serendib	Serendib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 characters	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 characters	case
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 characters	amod
8	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Prince	conj
9	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 characters	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 roll	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 roll	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 roll	amod
13	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 written	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 silk	case
15	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roll	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle		blue characters not said here		a long roll of silk			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on roll=Destination
2	roll			silk					nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient

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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