Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Which person did the genie state had originally formulated the request?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: formulate · To what, where: person

This is exam question 1 of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» 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	9 formulated	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 formulated	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 state	det
5	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	compound
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 formulated	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 formulated	aux
8	originally	originally	ADV	_	9 formulated	advmod
9	formulated	formulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 request	det
11	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 formulated	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 formulated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	formulate	past · perfect · passive · do-support		which person				originally property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary request=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

the brother of the African magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 magician	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
5	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	nmod

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

Option 2

the sultan's cousin from Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sultan	det
2	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sultan	case
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Egypt	case
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the brother of the African magician, the genie said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 magician	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
5	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 genie	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 genie	det
9	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the brother of the African magician and the genie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the brother of the African magician who lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 magician	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
5	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 magician	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the African magician						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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