Exam question 3 · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…

What was the object which the princess recovered from beneath the tree?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, recover · To what, where: object, tree

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 object	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 object	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 object	det
4	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 recovered	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recovered	nsubj
8	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 object	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recovered	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 object	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the object					tree rules
2	recover	past	the princess	the object		the tree			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from tree=Source

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

A jeweled book of spells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	jeweled	jewel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 spells	case
5	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 book	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jewel	participle							tree rules

Option 2

A silver box of old coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 coins	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coins	amod
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 box	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A golden box of pearls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 pearls	case
5	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 box	nmod

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

Option 4

Gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

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