Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 38: Maimoune kis…
Which character is the fairy who visits the prince's chamber at midnight?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: character, fairy · What happens: be, visit · To what, where: fairy, chamber
This is exam question 1 of lesson 198 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 38: Maimoune kisses the sleeping prince, then a bet sends for the Chinese princess and a judge» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fairy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fairy | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 visits | nsubj |
| 7 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visits | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 midnight | case |
| 13 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visits | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fairy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which character | the fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | present | the fairy | the prince's chamber | midnight | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Co-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
Danhasch, the genie who loves the princess of China
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 genie | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 genie | det |
| 4 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Danhasch | appos |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 loves | nsubj |
| 6 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 genie | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loves | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 China | case |
| 10 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the genie | the princess of China | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
Option 2
Damriat's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damriat | Damriat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Damriat | case |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Caschcasch, the hump-backed judge of the wager dispute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caschcasch | Caschcasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 judge | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 judge | det |
| 4 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 backed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hump | punct |
| 6 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 judge | amod |
| 7 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Caschcasch | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dispute | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dispute | det |
| 10 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dispute | compound |
| 11 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 judge | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Maimoune, daughter of Damriat, chief of the legion of genii
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Maimoune | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Damriat | case |
| 5 | Damriat | Damriat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chief | punct |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Maimoune | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 legion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 legion | det |
| 10 | legion | legion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 genii | case |
| 12 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 legion | nmod |
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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