Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

What was the relationship between the daughter and Amina?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: relationship · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 relationship	det
4	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 daughter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relationship	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Amina	cc
9	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the relationship between the daughter and Amina						tree rules

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

They trained together but never got along well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trained	nsubj
2	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 trained	advmod
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 got	advmod
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trained	conj
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	past	They					together property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not get along	past	They not said here					along, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They were distant cousins who had learned magic from the same old teacher long ago

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cousins	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cousins	cop
3	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cousins	amod
4	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 learned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 learned	aux
7	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cousins	acl:relcl
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learned	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 teacher	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teacher	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teacher	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teacher	amod
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learned	obl
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ago	advmod
15	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 learned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	distant cousins					tree rules
2	learn	past · perfect	distant cousins	magic				from the same old teacher; ago property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent magic=Topic from teacher=Source

Option 3

They had studied the same magic under one master but were now rivals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 studied	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 studied	aux
3	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magic	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magic	amod
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 studied	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 master	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 master	nummod
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 studied	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 rivals	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rivals	cop
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 rivals	advmod
13	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 studied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	past · perfect · passive		They		one master			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme magic=Attribute
2	is a	past		rivals			now		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They studied one art but disliked each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 studied	nsubj
2	studied	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 art	nummod
4	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 studied	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 disliked	cc
6	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 studied	conj
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 disliked	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	past	They	one art					vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic
2	dislike	past	They not said here	each					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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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