Exam question 2 · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

Which quality did the Sultan of Persia express in regard to the two princes upon their meeting?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality · What happens: do · To what, where: Sultan, regard

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 quality	det
2	quality	quality	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 Sultan	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 express	case
7	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 express	compound
8	express	express	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Sultan	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 regard	case
10	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 princes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princes	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 princes	nummod
14	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 regard	nmod
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 meeting	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 meeting	nmod:poss
17	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 princes	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which quality	the Sultan of Persia express		regard to the two princes upon princes's meeting			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality

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

admiration for their courage and manners and their wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 courage	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 courage	nmod:poss
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 admiration	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 manners	cc
6	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 courage	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wealth	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wealth	nmod:poss
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 admiration	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

esteem for their courage and manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	esteem	esteem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 courage	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 courage	nmod:poss
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 esteem	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 manners	cc
6	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 courage	conj

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

Option 3

esteem for their courage, manners, and loyalty to their sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	esteem	esteem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 courage	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 courage	nmod:poss
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 esteem	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 manners	punct
6	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 esteem	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loyalty	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 loyalty	cc
9	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 esteem	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 sister	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loyalty	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

regret over their long journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	5 journey	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 journey	nmod:poss
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 journey	amod
5	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 regret	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	journey		their = they						nom journey «act 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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