Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…
What sum did the assembled slave merchants agree could not reasonably be refused for the Persian?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, assembled slave merchants · What happens: do, assemble, agree, not refuse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | 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 | 7 merchants | det |
| 5 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 merchants | amod |
| 6 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 merchants | compound |
| 7 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 refused | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 refused | advmod |
| 11 | reasonably | reasonably | ADV | _ | 13 refused | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 refused | aux:pass |
| 13 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 agree | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Persian | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Persian | det |
| 16 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 refused | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what sum | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | present | the assembled slave merchants | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not refuse | could · passive | for the Persian; reasonably property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING» |
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
Three thousand gold pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | compound |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two thousand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Four thousand gold pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | compound |
| 4 | 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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