Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…

What did the narrator request of the genius in exchange for his submission?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: do, request, submit · To what, where: narrator request, exchange, genius

This is exam question 4 of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» 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 request	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 request	compound
5	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 genius	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 genius	det
8	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 request	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 exchange	case
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 submission	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 submission	nmod:poss
13	submission	submission	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the narrator request of the genius	exchange	for his submission	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	request			the genius			nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	submit		his = he				nom submission «communication transitive»: poss=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

The sparing of his life in its entirety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparing	det
2	sparing	spare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 life	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sparing	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 entirety	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 entirety	nmod:poss
8	entirety	entirety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sparing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	gerund				life's entirety		of his life	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The genius to let him go free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 genius	det
2	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 let	mark
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 genius	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here					free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

His life to be spared fully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 spared	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 spared	aux:pass
5	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 life	acl
6	fully	fully	ADV	_	5 spared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive · passive						fully property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The sparing of his life in its entirety and his return to the tailor's house

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparing	det
2	sparing	spare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 life	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sparing	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 entirety	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 entirety	nmod:poss
8	entirety	entirety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sparing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 return	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 return	nmod:poss
11	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entirety	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tailor	det
14	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 tailor	case
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sparing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	gerund				life's entirety and his return		of his life; to the tailor's house	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
2	return		his = he						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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