Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

In what manner did the Indian stipulate that he would relinquish the horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, stipulate, relinquish · To what, where: manner, horse

This is exam question 1 of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indian	det
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	xcomp
7	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Indian	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 relinquish	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 relinquish	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 relinquish	aux
11	relinquish	relinquish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stipulate	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 relinquish	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			what manner	indian property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stipulate	infinitive					tree rules
3	relinquish	would	he	the horse			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent horse=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

By force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 force	case
2	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By exchange for the hand of the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 exchange	case
2	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exchange	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 princess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hand	nmod

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

Option 3

By marriage to the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 marriage	case
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 princess	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marriage	nmod

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

Option 4

By gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 gold	case
2	gold	gold	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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