Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

How many camels did the dervish remove upon his departure toward Balsora?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many camels, dervish · What happens: remove, depart

This is exam question 2 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 camels	amod
3	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remove	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remove	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dervish	det
6	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remove	nsubj
7	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 departure	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 departure	nmod:poss
10	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remove	obl
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	12 Balsora	case
12	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 remove	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 remove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past · do-support	many camels					upon dervish's departure; toward Balsora	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	depart		dervish						nom departure «act 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

all of the camels in his caravan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 camels	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 camels	det
4	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 all	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 caravan	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 caravan	nmod:poss
7	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 all	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

eighty camels and four mules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 camels	nummod
2	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mules	cc
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mules	nummod
5	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 camels	conj

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

Option 3

seventy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

eighty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eighty	eighty	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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