Exam question 3 · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

On what condition did the gazelle instruct the master to remain silent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gazelle · What happens: instruct, remain · To what, where: master

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 condition	nsubj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 instruct	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 instruct	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gazelle	det
6	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 instruct	nsubj
7	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 master	det
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 instruct	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 remain	mark
11	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 instruct	advcl
12	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 remain	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · do-support	the gazelle	the master				on condition	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Recipient on condition=Topic
2	remain	to-infinitive	the gazelle not said here					silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Save for greetings and enquiries made by the sultan's court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 greetings	case
3	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Save	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 enquiries	cc
5	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 greetings	conj
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 greetings	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	11 court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sultan	det
9	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 court	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 sultan	case
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here					for greetings and enquiries	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for greeting=Source
2	make	participle		greetings and enquiries not said here				by the sultan's court	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Save for greetings and enquiries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 greetings	case
3	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Save	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 enquiries	cc
5	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 greetings	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here					for greetings and enquiries	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for greeting=Source

Option 3

Save for greetings and enquiries, and never mention the robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 greetings	case
3	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Save	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 enquiries	cc
5	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 greetings	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mention	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mention	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 mention	advmod
9	mention	mention	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Save	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 robbers	det
11	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mention	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here					for greetings and enquiries	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for greeting=Source
2	not mention speech: other	infinitive	you not said here	the robbers					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent robber=Topic

Option 4

Save for the sultan's orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	6 orders	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sultan	det
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 orders	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sultan	case
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here					for the sultan's orders	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for order=Source
2	order		the sultan						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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