Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Which term describes the blind man's act of making amends for his sin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term, act, blind man · What happens: describe, make, act · To what, where: act, amends

This is exam question 4 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 act	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 making	mark
10	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 act	acl
11	amends	amend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 making	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 sin	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sin	nmod:poss
14	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which term	the blind man's act		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent act=Theme
2	make	gerund	the blind man's act not said here	amends	for term's sin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent amend=Product for sin=Asset
3	act		the blind man			nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

repentance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

expiation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	expiation	expiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

making a public confession

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 confession	det
3	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 confession	amod
4	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		a public confession					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confession=Product

Option 4

redemption

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	redemption	redemption	NOUN	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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