Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39:…
Which of the following is the name of the fairy who transforms herself into a gnat in order to rouse the prince?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: follow, be, transform, rouse · To what, where: fairy, gnat, prince
This is exam question 1 of lesson 199 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39: the prince wakes beside the sleeping princess, and the king learns of the mystery» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 name | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 name | case |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fairy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairy | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 transforms | nsubj |
| 12 | transforms | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 transforms | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 gnat | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gnat | det |
| 16 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 transforms | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 transforms | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rouse | mark |
| 20 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 transforms | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rouse | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of the name; of the fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | transform | present | the fairy | fairy | into a gnat result; in order | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into gnat=Result | |||
| 4 | rouse | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | the prince | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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 · ✓ the right answer
Maimoune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Caschcasch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caschcasch | Caschcasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the fairy of the old well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 old | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 old | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fairy | amod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 old | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Camaralzaman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | 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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