Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

Which sum in gold pieces did Khacan pay to the merchant for the purchase of the slave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum · What happens: pay, purchase · To what, where: slave

This is exam question 2 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 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pieces	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pieces	compound
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sum	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pay	aux
7	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pay	nsubj
8	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 merchant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 purchase	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 purchase	det
14	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 slave	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 slave	det
17	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 purchase	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · do-support	which sum in gold pieces					to the merchant; for the purchase of the slave	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for purchase=Theme
2	purchase			the slave					nom purchase «act transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

10,000 gold pieces and a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 horse	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	conj

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

Option 2

8,000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8,000	8,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

10,000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

10,000 gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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