Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

How did the master respond upon the gazelle's return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master, gazelle · What happens: respond, return

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 respond	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 respond	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 respond	nsubj
5	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 return	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gazelle	det
8	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 return	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 gazelle	case
10	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 respond	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 respond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past · do-support	the master					upon the gazelle's return	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	return		the gazelle						nom return «communication intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

He praised it and bowed low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bowed	cc
5	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 praised	conj
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	He	it					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	bow	past	He not said here					low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He fed it and let it sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 let	cc
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fed	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feed	past	He	it	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	let	infinitive	He not said here	it	tree rules
3	sleep	infinitive			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He embraced and kissed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 embraced	nsubj
2	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kissed	cc
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 embraced	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	He						vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kiss	past	He not said here	it					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 4

He wept, held it tightly and thanked God forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	obj
6	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	4 held	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thanked	cc
8	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thanked	obj
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 thanked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	past	He not said here	it		tightly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	thank speech: thank	past	He not said here		God	forever property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme

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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