Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back…

Which garment did the prince don in order to present himself as a physician?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: garment · What happens: do, present · To what, where: prince don, garment

This is exam question 1 of lesson 226 «Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back the princess and tricks the Sultan» 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 garment	det
2	garment	garment	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 don	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 don	compound
6	don	don	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 present	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 present	mark
10	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 don	acl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 present	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 physician	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 physician	det
14	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 present	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which garment	the prince don					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent don=Eventuality
2	present	to-infinitive	which garment not said here	garment				as a physician	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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

A long physician's robe embroidered with gold thread and a turban

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 physician	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 physician	amod
3	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 robe	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 physician	case
5	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 embroidered	nsubj
6	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 thread	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thread	compound
9	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 embroidered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turban	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 turban	det
12	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	past	a long physician's robe					with gold thread and a turban	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thread=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A physician's robe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 physician	det
2	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robe	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 physician	case
4	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A healer's cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 healer	det
2	healer	healer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cloak	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 healer	case
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A physician's robe with a silver sash and a bag of herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 physician	det
2	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robe	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 physician	case
4	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 sash	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sash	det
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sash	amod
8	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robe	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bag	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bag	det
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sash	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 herbs	case
13	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bag	nmod

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

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