Exam question 1 · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

Which of the following describes the sultan's reason for executing his wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: follow, be, execute · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 1 of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 reason	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	9 reason	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reason	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 reason	case
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sultan	det
7	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reason	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 sultan	case
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 executing	mark
11	executing	execute	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 reason	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 executing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present			of the sultan's reason	tree rules
3	execute	gerund	the sultan's reason not said here	his wife		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient

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

He found out that she had deceived him many times over the years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 found	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 deceived	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deceived	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 deceived	aux
7	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deceived	obj
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 times	amod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deceived	obl:unmarked
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 years	det
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deceived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past	He						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deceive	past · perfect · passive		she			time; year		tree rules

Option 2

He learned she had tricked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 learned	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	He						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	trick	past · perfect	she	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

He discovered that she had deceived him with a palace guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discovered	nsubj
2	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 deceived	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deceived	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deceived	aux
6	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 discovered	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deceived	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 guard	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 guard	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guard	compound
11	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deceived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	He						vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deceive	past · perfect · passive		she				with a palace guard	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He discovered that she had deceived him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discovered	nsubj
2	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 deceived	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deceived	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deceived	aux
6	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 discovered	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deceived	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	He						vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deceive	past · perfect · passive		she					tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/161-pg128-part1/e1/