Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: t…

Which instruction did the magician give concerning the three halls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instruction, magician · What happens: do, give, concern

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1431 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: the lamp, the genie, and a stolen wedding night» 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 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	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 magician	det
5	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 halls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 halls	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 halls	nummod
10	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	which instruction		tree rules
2	give	present	the magician	concern the three halls	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	concern	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

To pass through them without stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pass	mark
2	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pass	obl
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 stopping	mark
6	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pass	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive						through them = they	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through they=Location
2	stop	gerund							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To pass through them without touching anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pass	mark
2	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pass	obl
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 touching	mark
6	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pass	advcl
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive						through them = they	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through they=Location
2	touch	gerund		anything					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme

Option 3

To pass through them without touching anything and never looking back at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pass	mark
2	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pass	obl
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 touching	mark
6	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pass	advcl
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 touching	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looking	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 looking	advmod
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 touching	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 looking	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive		through them = they	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through they=Location
2	touch	gerund	anything		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme
3	not look back	gerund		at all	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme

Option 4

To walk through them quietly and carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 walk	mark
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walk	obl
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carefully	cc
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 quietly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	to-infinitive						through them = they; quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory

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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