Exam question 4 · Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sist…
What sentence did the vizir successfully petition for on behalf of the Sultana?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: do · To what, where: vizir
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | 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 vizir | det |
| 5 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 7 petition | advmod |
| 7 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vizir | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 behalf | case |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 behalf | case |
| 10 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sultana | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultana | det |
| 13 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 behalf | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | sentence | the vizir petition | for behalf of the Sultana | tree rules |
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
permanent exile from the court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 exile | amod |
| 2 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exile | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
banishment from the royal presence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 presence | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 presence | det |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 presence | amod |
| 5 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 banishment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
imprisonment in the old tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tower | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tower | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tower | amod |
| 5 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 imprisonment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
banishment from the royal presence and loss of all her wealth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 presence | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 presence | det |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 presence | amod |
| 5 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 banishment | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 loss | cc |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presence | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wealth | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wealth | det:predet |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loss | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/227-pg128-part67/e4/