Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

By what virtue were the Barmecides distinguished, according to the narrator's account?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barmecides, narrator · What happens: be, accord, account

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 distinguished	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Barmecides	det
6	Barmecides	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 distinguished	nsubj
7	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct
9	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 account	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 according	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 narrator	det
12	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 account	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 narrator	case
14	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Barmecides	distinguish property	tree rules
2	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	account		the narrator		nom account «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 · ← Mova's choice

pride and cruelty alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cruelty	cc
3	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pride	conj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 pride	advmod

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

Option 2

virtue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

liberality and generosity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	liberality	liberality	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 generosity	cc
3	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 liberality	conj

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

Option 4

wisdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wisdom	wisdom	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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