Exam question 1 · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…
What object did the Princess Parizade employ to restore her brothers to human form?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, restore · To what, where: Parizade employ, brothers, human form
This is exam question 1 of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet 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 | object | object | 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 | 7 employ | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Parizade | compound |
| 6 | Parizade | Parizade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 employ | compound |
| 7 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 restore | mark |
| 9 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 employ | acl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 restore | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 restore | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | object | the Parizade employ | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | restore | to-infinitive | object not said here | object's brothers | human form | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to form=Recipient |
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
a jug of sweet wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jug | det |
| 2 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wine | case |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wine | amod |
| 5 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jug | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the magic ring of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ring | amod |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the pitcher of water from the Golden Spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pitcher | det |
| 2 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pitcher | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Spring | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Spring | det |
| 7 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Spring | amod |
| 8 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pitcher | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the pitcher of water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pitcher | det |
| 2 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pitcher | 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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