Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Which of the following accurately states the reason the bird gave for its willingness to serve the princess?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: follow, state, give, serve · To what, where: reason, princess

This is exam question 3 of lesson 230 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, part 70: Parizade wins the bird and the Golden Water» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 states	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 states	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 states	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 states	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 willingness	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 willingness	nmod:poss
14	willingness	willingness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 serve	mark
16	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gave	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 serve	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		the reason	accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
3	give	past	the bird	the reason not said here	for bird's willingness	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for willingness=Asset
4	serve	to-infinitive	the bird not said here	the princess		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute

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

Her gift of a golden bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gift	nmod:poss
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 bell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bell	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bell	amod
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift		Her = she	a golden bell					nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her constancy, which it judged more noble than a cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 constancy	nmod:poss
2	constancy	constancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 judged	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 judged	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 judged	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 judged	nsubj
6	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 noble	advmod
8	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 judged	xcomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 cage	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cage	det
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noble	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	past	Her constancy					noble property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent which=Value

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Her command given by the dervish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 command	nmod:poss
2	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	nsubj
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 dervish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dervish	det
6	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle	Her command					by the dervish	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	command		Her = she						nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Her promise to release it at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 promise	nmod:poss
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 release	mark
4	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	acl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 release	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 release	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	to-infinitive		promise			dawn		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source
2	promise		Her = she						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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