Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steal…

What did the prince's dream report concerning his father?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dream report, prince · What happens: do, concern, report · To what, where: dream report, father

This is exam question 1 of lesson 202 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steals the talisman and Badoura takes her husband's place» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 report	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 prince	case
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 report	compound
7	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 report	acl
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	8 concerning	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the prince's dream report	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Eventuality
2	concern	gerund	the prince's dream report not said here	his father	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
3	report		the prince		nom report «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 · ✓ the right answer

that he was at the point of death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 point	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 point	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 point	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 point	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 point	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the point		of death	tree rules

Option 2

that he was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 sleeping	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeping	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

that he was lying gravely ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 lying	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	gravely	gravely	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	he					ill property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

that he had been poisoned at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 poisoned	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poisoned	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poisoned	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 poisoned	aux:pass
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poisoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	past · perfect · passive		he		dinner			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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