Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…
Which shop offered the dog refuge after the meat seller's stall?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shop · What happens: offer · To what, where: dog refuge
This is exam question 1 of lesson 218 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coins and is freed by a magician's daughter» 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 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 refuge | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 refuge | compound |
| 6 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 stall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seller | det |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seller | compound |
| 10 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stall | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 seller | case |
| 12 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | which shop | the dog refuge | after the meat seller's stall | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme |
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 shop across the square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 square | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 square | det |
| 5 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shop | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The bakery on the far side of the main market square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bakery | det |
| 2 | bakery | bakery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 5 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 side | amod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bakery | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 square | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 square | det |
| 9 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 square | amod |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 square | compound |
| 11 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The baker's shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baker | det |
| 2 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shop | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 baker | case |
| 4 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The cheese seller's shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seller | det |
| 2 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seller | compound |
| 3 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shop | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 seller | case |
| 5 | shop | shop | 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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