Exam question 4 · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…

Which phenomenon did the Sultan observe in the garden before the Singing Tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phenomenon, Sultan · What happens: do, observe · To what, where: garden

This is exam question 4 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 phenomenon	det
2	phenomenon	phenomenon	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	6 observe	nsubj
6	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 observe	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	13 Tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tree	det
12	Singing	Singing	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tree	compound
13	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 observe	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which phenomenon						tree rules
2	observe	present	the Sultan			the garden	before the Singing Tree		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Golden Water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Water	det
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Water	amod
3	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A marble statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 statue	det
2	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 statue	amod
3	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The roses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roses	det
2	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

A fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fountain	det
2	fountain	fountain	NOUN	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.

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