Exam question 4 · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…

Ascertain the name by which the Queen of Sheba is known in the Ethiopian tradition of «The Glory of the Kings».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, name · What happens: ascertain, know · To what, where: name, Queen, Ethiopian tradition

This is exam question 4 of lesson 101 «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 known	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 known	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Sheba	case
9	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Queen	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux:pass
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 name	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 tradition	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tradition	det
14	Ethiopian	ethiopian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tradition	amod
15	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 known	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Glory	case
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 Glory	punct
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Glory	det
19	Glory	Glory	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tradition	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Kings	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Kings	det
22	Kings	King	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 Glory	nmod
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 Glory	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the name					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	know	present · passive	the name	the Queen of Sheba		the Ethiopian tradition of the Glory of the Kings			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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

Bilqis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bilqis	Bilqis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Esther

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Esther	esther	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Makeda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makeda	Makeda	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Balkis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Balkis	Balkis	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.

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