Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…
What sum of money did Schacabac inherit from his father, as recorded in the account?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum · What happens: inherit, record, sum · To what, where: account, money
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inherit | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sum | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 inherit | aux |
| 6 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 inherit | nsubj |
| 7 | inherit | inherit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inherit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 recorded | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 recorded | mark |
| 13 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 inherit | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 account | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 account | det |
| 16 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recorded | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 inherit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | past · do-support | what sum of money | from Schacabac's father | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from father=Source | ||||
| 2 | record | participle | what sum of money not said here | the account | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in account=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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
two hundred silver drachmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | 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.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
one hundred silver drachmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | 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.
Option 3
one hundred silver drachmas and a house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | 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 |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 house | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drachmas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the full hundred silver drachmas plus the estate and lands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 drachmas | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drachmas | amod |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 drachmas | nummod |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drachmas | compound |
| 5 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 8 estate | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 estate | det |
| 8 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drachmas | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lands | cc |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drachmas | conj |
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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