Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

What did the Sultan resolve to do upon learning the young king's history?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: resolve, do, learn · To what, where: history

This is exam question 4 of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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	5 resolve	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resolve	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 resolve	nsubj
5	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resolve	xcomp
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 learning	mark
9	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 do	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 history	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learning	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	resolve	past · do-support	the Sultan		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn	gerund	the Sultan not said here	the young king's history	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic

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

To avenge the young king on the enchantress and free him from marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 avenge	mark
2	avenge	avenge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avenge	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 enchantress	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 enchantress	det
8	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avenge	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 free	cc
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 enchantress	amod
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 free	nsubj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 marble	case
13	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avenge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	to-infinitive		the young king		the enchantress		from marble	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To marry the young king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 marry	mark
2	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive		the young king					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

Option 3

To punish the grand-vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vizir	det
4	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vizir	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grand	punct
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		the grand vizir					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To avenge the young king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 avenge	mark
2	avenge	avenge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avenge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	to-infinitive		the young king					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.

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