Exam question 1 · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…
Which entity advised the princes concerning the Sultan's proposal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: entity, princes, Sultan · What happens: advise, concern, propose · To what, where: princes, proposal
This is exam question 1 of lesson 232 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan is invited to the princess's house, and she plans a feast with pearl-stuffed cucumbers» 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 entity | det |
| 2 | entity | entity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princes | det |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 advised | obj |
| 6 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 princes | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sultan | case |
| 10 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 concerning | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | which entity | the princes | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the princes not said here | the Sultan's proposal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus proposal=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | propose | the Sultan | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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 vizir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Sultan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Talking Bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bird | det |
| 2 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bird | compound |
| 3 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Grand Vizir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Vizir | det |
| 2 | Grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Vizir | amod |
| 3 | Vizir | Vizir | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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/232-pg128-part72/e1/