Exam question 2 · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

Identify the official responsible for supplying the sultan with a new bride each evening.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, supply · To what, where: sultan

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 responsible	det
3	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 responsible	amod
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	ccomp
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 supplying	mark
6	supplying	supply	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 responsible	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sultan	det
8	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supplying	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 bride	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bride	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bride	amod
12	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supplying	obl
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supplying	obl:unmarked
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here						vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	supply	gerund	you not said here	the sultan			evening	with a new bride	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient with bride=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

The grand-vizir, whose duty it was to provide them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vizir	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grand	punct
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 provide	nsubj:outer
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 duty	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 duty	nmod:poss
7	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vizir	appos
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 duty	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 provide	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 provide	mark
11	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 provide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	duty		vizir						tree rules
2	is	past	the grand vizir					provide property	tree rules

Option 2

A palace official

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 official	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 official	compound
3	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The chief minister, who had to find them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
2	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minister	amod
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the chief minister						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the chief minister not said here	them = they					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 4

The grand-vizir, whose job was to find girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vizir	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grand	punct
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 job	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 job	nmod:poss
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vizir	conj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 find	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the grand vizir and the grand vizir and the grand vizir's job's job					find property	tree rules
2	job		the grand vizir and the grand vizir and job's job						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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