Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

According to the text, which official ordered the narrator's brother to depart the city permanently?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, order, depart · To what, where: brother, city

This is exam question 2 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 text	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 official	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 official	nsubj
7	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 text	appos
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrator	det
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brother	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 narrator	case
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 depart	mark
14	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ordered	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 depart	obj
17	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	14 depart	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 ordered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	order	past		the narrator's brother	accord the text	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	depart not said to happen	to-infinitive	the city		permanently property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Initial_Location

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

lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

chief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the vizier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vizier	det
2	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	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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