Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…
Which object did the Sultan first enquire about upon entering the princess's garden?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: enquire, enter · To what, where: garden
This is exam question 1 of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enquire | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enquire | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 enquire | nsubj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 enquire | advmod |
| 7 | enquire | enquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 enquire | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 10 entering | mark |
| 10 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 enquire | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 princess | case |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entering | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 enquire | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enquire speech: other | past · do-support | which object | about, first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | which object not said here | the princess's garden | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination |
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
the golden flask
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flask | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flask | amod |
| 3 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Singing Tree and the golden water beside it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tree | det |
| 2 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tree | compound |
| 3 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 water | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tree | conj |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Singing Tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tree | det |
| 2 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tree | compound |
| 3 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the Singing Tree that grew in the princess's garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tree | det |
| 2 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tree | compound |
| 3 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Singing Tree | the princess's garden | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
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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