Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

Which person did the vizir Khacan fear would inform the king of the events in his household?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: person, Khacan fear · What happens: do, inform · To what, where: vizir, king

This is exam question 1 of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vizir	det
5	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fear	compound
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inform	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 inform	aux
9	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 vizir	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inform	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 events	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 events	det
14	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 king	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 household	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 household	nmod:poss
17	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 events	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which person	the vizir					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Eventuality
2	inform speech: other	would	Khacan fear	the vizir not said here	the king of the events in fear's household				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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

Khacan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Saouy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Bahram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bahram	Bahram	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Omar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Omar	Omar	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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