Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3…

What undertaking does the prince resolve upon at the close of this part of the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: undertaking · What happens: resolve

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1202 «Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3: the prince enters the garden and is taken for a madman» 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	6 resolve	obj
2	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resolve	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 resolve	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resolve	nsubj
6	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 close	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 close	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 close	det
10	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resolve	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 part	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 part	det
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 narrative	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 part	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present · do-support	undertaking					upon the close of this part of the narrative	tree rules

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 right answer

To journey to Waq of the Caucasus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 journey	mark
2	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Waq	case
4	Waq	Waq	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 journey	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Caucasus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caucasus	det
7	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 journey	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	journey			the Caucasus				to Waq	nom journey «act transitive»: to=obl of=patient

Option 2

To travel to the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 travel	mark
2	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 north	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 north	det
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	to-infinitive				the north			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to north=Destination

Option 3

To journey to Waq of the Caucasus to ask him for the truth about the riddle

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 journey	mark
2	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Waq	case
4	Waq	Waq	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 journey	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Caucasus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caucasus	det
7	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Waq	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 truth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 riddle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 riddle	det
16	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 truth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	journey to Waq of the Caucasus		Waq			for the truth about the riddle	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To stay in the garden a little longer and then journey to Waq of the Caucasus with his horse

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stay	mark
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stay	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 longer	obl:unmarked
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 stay	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 journey	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 journey	advmod
11	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stay	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Waq	case
13	Waq	Waq	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 journey	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Caucasus	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Caucasus	det
16	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Waq	nmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 horse	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 horse	nmod:poss
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	to-infinitive				the garden		with Waq's horse; long property	vn exist-47.1 «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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