Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

What penalty did the Sultan declare would befall the grand-vizir in the event of non-compliance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan declare · What happens: befall · To what, where: grand vizir, event

This is exam question 1 of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» 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	8 befall	obl
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 befall	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 declare	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 declare	compound
6	declare	declare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 befall	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 befall	aux
8	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vizir	det
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vizir	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grand	punct
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 befall	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 event	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 event	det
15	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 befall	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 non-compliance	case
17	non-compliance	non-compliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 event	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 befall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	befall	would · past · do-support	the Sultan declare	the grand vizir		the event of non-compliance			tree rules

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 loss of his office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 office	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 office	nmod:poss
5	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loss	nmod

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

Option 2

imprisonment for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 life	case
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 imprisonment	nmod

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

Option 3

that he would be stripped of his titles, lands and office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 stripped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stripped	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stripped	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stripped	aux:pass
5	stripped	strip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 titles	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 titles	nmod:poss
8	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stripped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lands	punct
10	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 titles	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 office	cc
12	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 titles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strip	would · passive		he				of his titles and lands and office	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme of title=Initial_Location
2	title		his = he						nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

forfeiture of his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forfeiture	forfeiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 forfeiture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forfeit			his head					nom forfeiture «possession transitive»: of=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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