Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…
What total sum did Alnaschar's father bequeath to his sons?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: total sum · What happens: do · To what, where: father bequeath
This is exam question 2 of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 sum | det |
| 2 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sum | amod |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bequeath | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Alnaschar | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bequeath | compound |
| 8 | bequeath | bequeath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what total sum | Alnaschar's father bequeath | to sum's sons | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bequeath=Eventuality |
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
Seven hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Seven thousand gold dinars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dinars | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dinars | compound |
| 4 | dinars | dinar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nine hundred silver coins each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 coins | nummod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coins | compound |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 coins | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Seven hundred silver drachmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 drachmas | nummod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drachmas | compound |
| 4 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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