Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the…
Which of the following identifies the location to which the palace was transported?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, transport · To what, where: location, palace
This is exam question 2 of lesson 212 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the princess into giving up the lamp, and the palace vanishes to Africa» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 identifies | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 identifies | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 5 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 location | det |
| 7 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 identifies | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 transported | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transported | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 transported | aux:pass |
| 13 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 location | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the location | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme | |||||
| 3 | transport | past · passive | the palace | the location | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to which=Destination |
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 desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 desert | det |
| 2 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A lonely place in Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 2 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Africa | case |
| 5 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A dark forest in Persia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forest | amod |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Persia | case |
| 5 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A remote and desolate place somewhere far to the south in Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 2 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 desolate | cc |
| 4 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remote | conj |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 south | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 south | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 south | det |
| 10 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules |
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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