Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess rev…

To what office was Camaralzaman appointed, and with what quality was he said to have performed its duties?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Camaralzaman · What happens: be, perform · To what, where: duties · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 205 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess reveals herself, and the prince is made king and married» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 appointed	obj
3	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appointed	cop
5	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 appointed	nsubj
6	appointed	appoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 appointed	obl
11	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl:unmarked
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 performed	mark
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 performed	aux
17	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 duties	nmod:poss
19	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 performed	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 appointed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Camaralzaman		appoint property	tree rules
2	be speech: assert	past	Camaralzaman		quality obl:unmarked; say property	tree rules
3	perform	to-infinitive · perfect		office's duties		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=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

Grand treasurer, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 treasurer	amod
2	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 treasurer	punct
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 treasurer	advmod

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

Option 2

Chief steward of the palace, with wisdom and mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 steward	compound
2	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steward	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wisdom	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 wisdom	case
8	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steward	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mercy	cc
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steward	conj

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

Option 3

Keeper of the stables, with patience and zeal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeper	Keeper	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 stables	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stables	det
4	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keeper	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 patience	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 patience	case
7	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stables	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 zeal	cc
9	zeal	zeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 patience	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Grand treasurer, with integrity and benevolence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 treasurer	amod
2	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 integrity	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 integrity	case
5	integrity	integrity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treasurer	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 benevolence	cc
7	benevolence	benevolence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treasurer	conj

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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