Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…
Which conveyance did the prince employ to return from Bengal, and by what mechanism was it set in motion?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: conveyance · What happens: do, return, set · To what, where: prince employ, Bengal, mechanism, motion
This is exam question 2 of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» 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 conveyance | det |
| 2 | conveyance | conveyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 employ | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | compound |
| 6 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employ | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Bengal | case |
| 10 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 what | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | parataxis |
| 15 | mechanism | mechanism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux:pass |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 motion | case |
| 20 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which conveyance | the prince employ | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | which conveyance not said here | the prince employ not said here | Bengal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bengal=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | set | past · passive | mechanism | motion | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in motion=Destination |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The enchanted horse, set in motion by a screw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 horse | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 motion | case |
| 7 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 screw | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 screw | det |
| 10 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | set | participle | the enchanted horse not said here | motion | by a screw | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in motion=Destination |
Option 2
The flying horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A magic horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The enchanted horse, moved by pulling a silver rein
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 horse | acl |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 pulling | mark |
| 7 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 moved | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rein | det |
| 9 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rein | amod |
| 10 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | move | participle | the enchanted horse not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | a silver rein | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
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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