Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…
What condition did the Indian vendor stipulate as payment for the enchanted horse?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition · What happens: stipulate, enchant
This is exam question 2 of lesson 223 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63: the prince tells his flight and dines with the princess» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 condition | det |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stipulate | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stipulate | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vendor | det |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vendor | amod |
| 6 | vendor | vendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stipulate | nsubj |
| 7 | stipulate | stipulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 payment | case |
| 9 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stipulate | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 horse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 12 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 horse | amod |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 payment | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 stipulate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stipulate | past · do-support | what condition | as payment for the enchanted horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 hand of his sister in marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coins | compound |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The hand of his sister in marriage and a royal dowry besides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dowry | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dowry | det |
| 10 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dowry | amod |
| 11 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | conj |
| 12 | besides | besides | PUNCT | _ | 2 hand | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A great sum and a royal title
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sum | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sum | amod |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 title | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 title | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 title | amod |
| 7 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sum | conj |
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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