Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20:…

In what manner did the narrator and the Calenders relate to one another upon meeting at the city gate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Calenders · What happens: do, relate, meet · To what, where: narrator, manner, one, city gate

This is exam question 4 of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 relate	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Calenders	det
9	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 relate	nsubj
10	relate	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 relate	obl
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	fixed
14	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	15 meeting	mark
15	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 relate	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 gate	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gate	det
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gate	compound
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meeting	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the narrator		what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Eventuality
2	relate	present	the Calenders		one		vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to one=Co-Theme
3	meet	gerund	the Calenders not said here			the city gate	vn meet-36.3-1 «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

They were all blind in the same eye and had all been shaved by the same barber

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blind	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blind	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shaved	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shaved	aux
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 shaved	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 shaved	aux:pass
13	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 blind	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 barber	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 barber	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 barber	amod
17	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shaved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			the same eye		all, blind property	tree rules
2	shave	past · perfect · passive	the same barber					all property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were all blind in the same eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blind	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			the same eye		all, blind property	tree rules

Option 3

They were all blind in the same eye, having each lost it on their own long journey through the desert

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blind	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 having	punct
10	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 lost	csubj
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 having	obj
12	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lost	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 journey	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 journey	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 journey	amod
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 journey	amod
18	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 desert	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 desert	det
21	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	They		the same eye	all, blind property	tree rules
2	have	gerund		each			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
3	lose	past	having	eye	their own long journey	through the desert	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	journey		their = they				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They met by chance and became friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 chance	case
4	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 became	cc
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	They					by chance	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	They not said here	friends					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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