Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

What did the Sultan require of Aladdin in order to avoid execution?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, avoid · To what, where: Sultan require, order, execution

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1433 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: the palace flies home, and the magician's brother, disguised as Fatima, asks for a roc's egg» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 require	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 require	compound
5	require	require	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Aladdin	case
7	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 require	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 avoid	mark
11	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
12	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 avoid	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Sultan require of Aladdin		order			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent require=Eventuality
2	avoid	to-infinitive		execution					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent execution=Location

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

that he bring back the Princess and the palace within forty days under pain of death

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 bring	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 palace	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Princess	conj
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obl
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 pain	case
14	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	infinitive	he		the Princess and the palace	pain of death	day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination
2	pain			death					nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

that he restore the Princess within forty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 restore	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 restore	nsubj
3	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 restore	obj
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 restore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	infinitive	he	the Princess			day		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

that he restore the Princess to the palace within forty days or die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 restore	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 restore	nsubj
3	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 restore	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 restore	obl
9	within	within	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 restore	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 die	cc
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 restore	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	infinitive	he	the Princess	the palace		day		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to palace=Recipient
2	die	infinitive	he not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

that he marry the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 marry	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	nsubj
3	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	infinitive	he	the Princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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