Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: t…

What purpose did the magician ascribe to the ring he gave Aladdin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: magician · What happens: ascribe, give · To what, where: ring, Aladdin

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 ascribe	obl
2	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ascribe	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 magician	det
5	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascribe	nsubj
6	ascribe	ascribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 ring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascribe	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ring	acl:relcl
12	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gave	iobj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ascribe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascribe	past · do-support	the magician					to the ring	tree rules
2	give	past	magician	the ring not said here	Aladdin				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme

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

To bid him prosper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bid	mark
2	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 prosper	advcl
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bid	obj
4	prosper	prosper	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bid	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	prosper	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To make him rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 3

To keep him safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		him = he				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

To bring him luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bring	mark
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bring	obj
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	to-infinitive		luck	him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination luck=Theme

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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