Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…
Which eye did the dervish's ointment render sightless when applied in the manner forbidden?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: eye, ointment · What happens: do, render, apply, forbid · To what, where: manner
This is exam question 1 of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» 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 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | 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 | 5 dervish | det |
| 5 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ointment | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dervish | case |
| 7 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 render | nsubj |
| 8 | render | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | sightless | sightless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 render | xcomp |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 applied | advmod |
| 11 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 render | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 manner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 manner | det |
| 14 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 applied | obl |
| 15 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 applied | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which eye | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | render | present | the dervish's ointment | sightless property | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | apply | participle | the dervish's ointment not said here | the manner | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in manner=Destination | ||||
| 4 | forbid | participle | the dervish's ointment not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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 right answer
the right eye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eye | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the right eye, the one he had been warned about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eye | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eye | appos |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 warned | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 warned | aux:pass |
| 10 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 warned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past · perfect · passive | the one not said here | he | about property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
Option 3
the left eye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eye | det |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the eye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | 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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