Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39:…
Identify the object which the prince removes from the princess's hand and replaces with a ring of his own.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: identify, remove, replace · To what, where: object, hand
This is exam question 2 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 removes | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 removes | nsubj |
| 7 | removes | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 object | acl:relcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 removes | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 replaces | cc |
| 14 | replaces | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 removes | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 ring | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ring | det |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replaces | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 own | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ring | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the object | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remove | present | the prince | the object | the princess's hand | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from hand=Source | |||
| 3 | replace | present | the prince not said here | with a ring of prince's own | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with ring=Co-Theme |
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
a gem
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gem | det |
| 2 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a key
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 key | det |
| 2 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a jewel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jewel | det |
| 2 | jewel | jewel | 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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