Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back…
What reason did the princess give for her feigned madness?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, princess · What happens: do, give, feign
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | reason | reason | 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 | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 madness | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 madness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feigned | feign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 madness | amod |
| 10 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | present | the princess | for princess's feigned madness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for madness=Asset | ||||
| 3 | feign | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Escape marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Escape | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | imperative | you not said here | marriage | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme marriage=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Avoid a hated match
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 match | det |
| 3 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 match | amod |
| 4 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Avoid | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | imperative | you not said here | a hated match | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent match=Location | ||||
| 2 | hate | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Escape from a forced marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 marriage | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 marriage | det |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 marriage | amod |
| 5 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Escape | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | imperative | you not said here | a forced marriage | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from marriage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Refuse the royal wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wedding | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wedding | amod |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Refuse | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | imperative | you not said here | the royal wedding | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=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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