Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Which of the following correctly describes the outcome of the princess's attempt to obtain the Singing Tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: follow, describe, obtain, attempt · To what, where: outcome, Singing Tree

This is exam question 4 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	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 describes	advmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 outcome	det
8	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 attempt	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attempt	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 princess	case
13	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outcome	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 obtain	mark
15	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 attempt	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Tree	det
17	Singing	Singing	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Tree	compound
18	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 obtain	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the outcome of the princess's attempt	correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent outcome=Theme
3	obtain	to-infinitive		the Singing Tree		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Theme
4	attempt		the princess			nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

The tree was too tall and strong to be uprooted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tall	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strong	cc
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tall	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 uprooted	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 uprooted	aux:pass
10	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 strong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tree	tall property	tree rules
2	be		the tree not said here		tree rules
3	uproot	to-infinitive · passive	the tree not said here		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»

Option 2

The tree sang and she carried it home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carried	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the tree						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	past	tree	it				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

The tree was given freely by the dervish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	freely	freely	ADV	_	4 given	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 dervish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dervish	det
8	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive	the dervish	the tree				freely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

The tree was felled with the silver flask

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felled	aux:pass
4	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 flask	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flask	det
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flask	compound
8	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fell	past · passive		the tree				with the silver flask	tree rules

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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