Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

In the narrative, what implement does Alnaschar conceal beneath his garment before confronting the old woman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: conceal, confront · To what, where: narrative, old woman

This is exam question 1 of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 narrative	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrative	det
3	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conceal	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 does	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 implement	det
6	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 conceal	aux
8	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conceal	nsubj
9	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 garment	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garment	nmod:poss
12	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conceal	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 confronting	mark
14	confronting	confront	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 conceal	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 confronting	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	present · do-support	Alnaschar			the narrative		beneath Alnaschar's garment	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in narrative=Location
2	confront	gerund	Alnaschar not said here	the old woman					vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme

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

a cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cane	det
2	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a sabre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sabre	det
2	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a rod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rod	det
2	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dagger	det
2	dagger	dagger	NOUN	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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