Test 15 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

What did the Sultan vow to do for the young king?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Sultan vow

This is test 15 · ★ 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. 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	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	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	for	for	ADP	_	11 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 king	amod
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

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

Take revenge on the enchantress and burn her palace to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 enchantress	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 enchantress	det
5	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 burn	cc
7	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 palace	nmod:poss
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	revenge		the enchantress			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme on enchantress=Destination
2	burn	infinitive	you not said here	her palace				to the ground	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Theme

Option 2

Punish the grand-vizir fully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	imperative	you not said here	the grand vizir				fully property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Take revenge on the enchantress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 enchantress	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 enchantress	det
5	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	revenge		the enchantress			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme on enchantress=Destination

Option 4

Marry the enchantress soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 enchantress	det
3	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marry	obj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the enchantress				soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantress=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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