Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the j…

What did the genie vow to do during the third century of his captivity?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: genie vow

This is exam question 2 of lesson 165 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the jar is opened and a furious genie appears» 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 vow	det
4	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vow	compound
5	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 vow	acl
8	during	during	ADP	_	11 century	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 century	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 century	amod
11	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 captivity	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 captivity	nmod:poss
14	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 century	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the genie vow			century		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Eventuality
2	do	to-infinitive		the genie vow not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

to make his deliverer a king

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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 deliverer	nmod:poss
4	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

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

Option 2

to crown him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown	to-infinitive		him = he					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

to make a king

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

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

Option 4

to make his rescuer a lord

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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rescuer	nmod:poss
4	rescuer	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lord	det
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

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

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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