Exam question 3 · Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sist…

Which official first perceived the cradle upon the canal?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: official · What happens: perceive · To what, where: cradle

This is exam question 3 of lesson 227 «Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sisters' wishes come true, and the cradles float away» 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 official	det
2	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 perceived	advmod
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cradle	det
6	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 canal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 canal	det
9	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	which official	the cradle				upon the canal; first property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cradle=Stimulus

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 fisherman on the canal bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
5	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bank	compound
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fisherman	nmod

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

Option 2

the chief of the palace guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 guards	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guards	compound
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chief	nmod

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

Option 3

the gardener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the intendant of the royal gardens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 intendant	det
2	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 gardens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gardens	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gardens	amod
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 intendant	nmod

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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