Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

To whom did the Sultan entrust the four fish for preparation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: entrust

This is exam question 2 of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 entrust	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sultan	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 entrust	nsubj
6	entrust	entrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 fish	nummod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whom	nsubj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 preparation	case
11	preparation	preparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entrust	past · do-support	the Sultan						vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

to his first vizir, who carried them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 vizir	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 vizir	nmod:poss
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 vizir	amod
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carried	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 carried	nsubj
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past		them = they		his first vizir			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to vizir=Destination

Option 2

to the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 cook	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

to his second vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 vizir	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 vizir	nmod:poss
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 vizir	amod
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to his first vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 vizir	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 vizir	nmod:poss
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 vizir	amod
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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